Alison Garwood Jones

My book is heading to the library

Originally published in July 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Grief

My new graphic novel, I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults, will soon be available at the Toronto Public Library.

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Cutting Room Floor

Originally published in July 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Toronto Illustrators

This drawing never made it into my book, I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults.

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What is your grief story?

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

I Miss My Mommy takes you right to the heart of the five stages of grief through 150 portraits, some grim, some funny, but all relatable.

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Father’s Day

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Gift Ideas, Pen Jar Productions

My new book is called I Miss My Mommy, but fathers are just as integral to the story for orphaned adults. For Father’s Day, here’s a preview of how dads, now gone, weave in and out of the stories of their adult kids’ lives. 

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Summer Giveaway

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Gift Ideas, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

Let’s start a conversation about grief. I’d love a short social media review of my book (up to 150 words written or filmed) from you:

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Press for I Miss My Mommy

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

Anne Bokma’s compelling Mother’s Day column in today’s Hamilton Spectator shows how fraught Mother’s Day can be for adult orphans, particularly women. Bokma cites I Miss My Mommy by Alison Garwood-Jones as a resource for middle agers struggling with the five stages of grief.

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The Queen of Death

Originally published in June 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Loss, Graphic Visualizer, Grief

I didn’t set out to create a book on grief … Just before the pandemic, I started drawing fictional portraits of people in different stages of grief and organizing them into a narrative arc.

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Mother’s Day is Remembrance Day for Orphaned Adults … and it’s complicated

Originally published in May 2024 in Blog, Books on Grief, Grief

Mother’s Day is Remembrance Day for Orphaned Adults. Survey results reveal how you are handling it now that she’s gone.

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My Big Media Interview With Rupert (the golden retriever)

Originally published in April 2024 in Blog, Books, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Grief, Cartoons, Comic, Gift Ideas, Graphic Novel, Grief, Holiday Gift Ideas, Illustration, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators

In my proudest earned media moment to date, yesterday I snagged an interview with Rupert, the white golden retriever.

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Don’t You Love End Papers?

Originally published in April 2024 in Blog, Books, Books on Grief, Books on Parental Grief, Cartoons, Comic, Gift Ideas, Graphic Novel, Grief, Pen Jar Productions

This is the advance reader copy of my new graphic novel that I’m sending out to the media. You can see that it’s got little tags in it where my copy editor Pamela and I have spotted a few tiny bloopers that need correcting before I create the final. But I want to show you […]

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