Selling Your Art: A comprehensive guide for the artist determined to not only survive, but thrive on creative effort! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461081920)

Douglas Ready is a cartoonist, illustrator and author. He's produced illustrations for advertising, books, magazines, greeting cards, posters, and coloring books; created the comic features 'Beach Drive' and 'AKA Morgue', and the comic book 'Bramble'. Doug also does product design work, creating plush toys, puppets, and puzzles, and a variety of consumer paper products. Doug's novel 'Frost', is the premiere volume in a series of thrillers, continuing with 'Frost: Second Shot' scheduled for release in July, 2017, and 'Frost: A Very Blue Moon' scheduled for December, 2017. He's also published three art business books, 'The Greeting Card Business Manual', 'Selling Your Art', and 'The Professional Cartoonist's Business Manual & Marketing Guide', as well as a volume of humorous verse titled 'The Laid-Off Blues & Other Cautionary Rhymes'. Doug's self-directed work is published and marketed via DMR Creative. He is a former partner in Carousel Studios and the former owner of Studio 5, both commercial art firms specialized in product design, greeting card and poster creation, licensing, and publishing. Doug and his incredible wife Mona live in the Pacific Northwest.