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Don Lomax
Don Lomax (born 1944) is an American comic book writer/artist best known for his long-running comic Vietnam Journal. A veteran of the Vietnam War, much of Lomax's adrenaline-fueled work centers on the military experience, and its gritty, unflinching depiction of the reality of war, specifically in Vietnam.
Growing up in Bushnell, Illinois, Lomax's artistic influences included Jack Davis and Berni Wrightson, as well as the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Blazing Combat.
Drafted into the U.S. Army in the fall of 1965, Lomax did his basic training at Fort Knox. In the fall of 1966, he was shipped out to Vietnam on the USS General John Pope, deployed to the 98th Light Equipment Maintenance Company. During his tour of duty, Lomax made notes and sketches which later were incorporated into Vietnam Journal. According to Lomax, the War ". . . opened my eyes. Before I went into the war I trusted everybody, and when I came out I trusted nobody or the government."
Lomax's first professional comics work was Atilla the Frog for Heavy Metal magazine in 1979. In the early 1980s, he published comics stories in magazines like Cavalier and Hustler Humor, as well as contributing to Fantagraphics' Anything Goes!. Lomax supplied art for Pacific Comics' Twisted Tales, and for back-up stories in First Comics titles like American Flagg!, Starslayer, and The Black Flame.
In 1987, after doing some work for the fledgling publisher Apple Comics, Lomax pitched Apple editor Michael Catron his proposal for Vietnam Journal. Given the concurrent success of Vietnam-related films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Catron agreed to Lomax's proposal. Between 1987 and 1991, Apple published 16 issues of Vietnam Journal, which then spawned a selection of limited series and one-shots. Vietnam Journal tells the fictional adventures of war correspondent Scott "Journal" Neithammer.
During this period, Apple also published Lomax's four-issue limited series High Shining Brass, collecting the Vietnam War stories of Robert Durand.
Vietnam Journal collections were published by Apple Comics in 1987 and 1991. The publisher went bankrupt in 1994; right at that time Lomax published new Vietnam Journal material in the short-lived Dark Horse Comics series Harvey Kurtzman's The New Two-Fisted Tales. Vietnam Journal was later revived as a monthly full-page strip from 2002 to 2006 by Gallery.
Vietnam Journal collections were re-issued by iBooks in 2004, and were nominated for a 2004 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project. Lomax was at the time continuing the Vietnam Journal series and posting it on his website in five-page increments twice a month. The entire Vietnam Journal series was re-issued in graphic novel form through Transfuzion Publishing.
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Don Lomax
Don Lomax (born 1944) is an American comic book writer/artist best known for his long-running comic Vietnam Journal. A veteran of the Vietnam War, much of Lomax's adrenaline-fueled work centers on the military experience, and its gritty, unflinching depiction of the reality of war, specifically in Vietnam.
Growing up in Bushnell, Illinois, Lomax's artistic influences included Jack Davis and Berni Wrightson, as well as the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Blazing Combat.
Drafted into the U.S. Army in the fall of 1965, Lomax did his basic training at Fort Knox. In the fall of 1966, he was shipped out to Vietnam on the USS General John Pope, deployed to the 98th Light Equipment Maintenance Company. During his tour of duty, Lomax made notes and sketches which later were incorporated into Vietnam Journal. According to Lomax, the War ". . . opened my eyes. Before I went into the war I trusted everybody, and when I came out I trusted nobody or the government."
Lomax's first professional comics work was Atilla the Frog for Heavy Metal magazine in 1979. In the early 1980s, he published comics stories in magazines like Cavalier and Hustler Humor, as well as contributing to Fantagraphics' Anything Goes!. Lomax supplied art for Pacific Comics' Twisted Tales, and for back-up stories in First Comics titles like American Flagg!, Starslayer, and The Black Flame.
In 1987, after doing some work for the fledgling publisher Apple Comics, Lomax pitched Apple editor Michael Catron his proposal for Vietnam Journal. Given the concurrent success of Vietnam-related films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Catron agreed to Lomax's proposal. Between 1987 and 1991, Apple published 16 issues of Vietnam Journal, which then spawned a selection of limited series and one-shots. Vietnam Journal tells the fictional adventures of war correspondent Scott "Journal" Neithammer.
During this period, Apple also published Lomax's four-issue limited series High Shining Brass, collecting the Vietnam War stories of Robert Durand.
Vietnam Journal collections were published by Apple Comics in 1987 and 1991. The publisher went bankrupt in 1994; right at that time Lomax published new Vietnam Journal material in the short-lived Dark Horse Comics series Harvey Kurtzman's The New Two-Fisted Tales. Vietnam Journal was later revived as a monthly full-page strip from 2002 to 2006 by Gallery.
Vietnam Journal collections were re-issued by iBooks in 2004, and were nominated for a 2004 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project. Lomax was at the time continuing the Vietnam Journal series and posting it on his website in five-page increments twice a month. The entire Vietnam Journal series was re-issued in graphic novel form through Transfuzion Publishing.