Junior and Juliet
12-year-old Thomas Onions publishes a daily cartoon about “Junior, a mixture of a cat and a fox, and Juliet, a mouse with attitude” on the web. Go here to see his cartoon: Today’s Worcester News notes that Thomas has Aspergers Syndrome and also skeletal dysplasia, which means he grows slowly. He is educated at home and his mother, Sue Onions says that “‘He’s drawn all his life. He’s never stopped drawing from being a toddler. We’re running out of places to display his drawings.
‘”Fortunately lack of space will not be such a big problem on the web!
8 opinions for Junior and Juliet
Emily
Dec 28, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Our son draws incessantly. We have stacks of notebooks of his drawings–I think it’s his best form of therapy. Interestingly, he is great at detail with plants, insects, and inanimate objects, but his people are stuck at about the age 3 or 4 level of development (he’s 6.5). I think that’s a reflection of what his mind naturally finds interesting.
Marla
Dec 28, 2007 at 8:34 pm
This is terrific. I put a link to his web site on my blog and my daughter’s. I wish we could read all the comics he has made since he began. Very cool.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Dec 28, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Finding these made me happy — Charlie himself is not interested in drawing. But you never know….
Tea
Dec 29, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I can’t pull anything up when I click on that other than a title page! there is no Junior and Juliet showing up for me. . .
Kristina Chew, PhD
Dec 30, 2007 at 12:04 am
Oh no! I checked the links; they should work—here is the website:
http://www.juniorandjuliet.com/
Patience
Dec 30, 2007 at 10:55 am
Tea, are you using Firefox? I can get it to load in IE, but not the Fox (oh, the irony).
Kristina Chew, PhD
Dec 30, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I can see the cartoons in Safari but not in Firefox—thanks for pointing that out, Patience!
T¬
Jun 24, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Glad you like the site, sorry it does not work with FireFox, we made some tweaks to the site to try and make it work but failed:(
Tim (ie Thomas’ Dad)
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