{"id":13298,"date":"2008-09-18T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13298"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:51:39","slug":"a-cartoonists-10-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/18\/a-cartoonists-10-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"A cartoonist&#8217;s 10 commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbidden Planet International Blog Log<\/a> reports on a  <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenplanet.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9393\" target=\"_blank\">Cartoonist&#8217;s 10 Commandments<\/a>, as drafted for young cartoonists by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndicatbd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Groupement des Auteurs de Bande Dessin&#233;e du Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs<\/a> (that is, the French Artists&#8217; Syndicate&#8217;s Comics Creators Group).<\/p>\n<p>According to the site&#8217;s translation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actuabd.com\/spip.php?article7326\" target=\"_blank\">French journalist Didier Pasamonik&#8217;s paraphrasing<\/a> of the original document, the manifesto includes such common-sense recommendations as&#151;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1.  You will not surrender your talent for the rest of your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#038;#151and&#151;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4.  You will recover your rights if your work is not in exploitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#151;all of which can  be applied to any creative endeavor, and not just comics.<\/p>\n<p>Any readers of French out there can download the original document <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actuabd.com\/IMG\/pdf\/10recommandations-4pages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log reports on a Cartoonist&#8217;s 10 Commandments, as drafted for young cartoonists by the Groupement des Auteurs de Bande Dessin&#233;e du Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs (that is, the French Artists&#8217; Syndicate&#8217;s Comics Creators Group). According to the site&#8217;s translation of French journalist Didier Pasamonik&#8217;s paraphrasing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13299,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions\/13299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}