The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log reports on a Cartoonist’s 10 Commandments, as drafted for young cartoonists by the Groupement des Auteurs de Bande Dessinée du Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs (that is, the French Artists’ Syndicate’s Comics Creators Group).

According to the site’s translation of French journalist Didier Pasamonik’s paraphrasing of the original document, the manifesto includes such common-sense recommendations as—

1. You will not surrender your talent for the rest of your life.

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4. You will recover your rights if your work is not in exploitation.

—all of which can be applied to any creative endeavor, and not just comics.

Any readers of French out there can download the original document here.