Biography of 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."