Growing up in Bushnell, Illinois, Lomax's artistic influences included Jack Davis and Berni Wrightson,[1] as well as the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Blazing Combat.
In the fall of 1966, he was shipped out to Vietnam on the USS General John Pope,[2] deployed to the 98th Light Equipment Maintenance Company.
Given the concurrent success of Vietnam-related films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Catron agreed to Lomax's proposal.
During this period, Apple also published Lomax's four-issue limited series High Shining Brass, collecting the Vietnam War stories of Robert Durand.
Lomax's Desert Storm Journal, published in 9 issues by Apple Comics from September 1991 to March 1993, covered the Gulf War.
Scott "Journal" Neithammer gets caught up in the war between the Pentagon and the press, and heads off into the desert on his own, getting an unwelcome first-hand taste of the fury of American firepower.
Vietnam Journal: Series Two, featuring all-new material by Lomax, was published for 15 issues by Caliber Comics starting in 2017.