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THE KITCHEN
THE KITCHEN
I started a comics workshop in my own kitchen, back in 1998. As a result, it was called Kuhinja (The Kitchen). A group of cartoonists from Pancevo and Belgrade would gather every Saturday and disscuss and draw comics together. The group included personalities such as Vuk Palibrk, Sasa Mihajlovic, Flyer, Mr Spiral, Vladimir Nedeljkovic Nedelja and others. In the past few years Kuhinja has been publishing it's own zine and touring Serbia with a comics exhibition.

One of the ideas behind the Kuhinja workshop was to explore different forms of creativity in order to see how they relate to comics. The group of cartoonists gathered in this D.I.Y. workshop was involved in various experiments, including playing music together. We wanted to see how we could collaborate and get along while involved in activities other than drawing comics. It was fun because some of the Kitchen guys were already in a band with CD releases behind them, while others (me, for example) played hardly any instrument at all. As a result, we recorded a few tracks, including one that is available here for free download. This recording was taken from a video tape (we simply switched on the video camera while we played), and the track that you can hear is the result of sheer improvisation At one point we just started to play a little tune that seemingly came out of nowhere, and we liked it even more when we later listened to the tape. We realized that a moment of magic was caught on the recording, and we declared it to be the Kuhinja Anthem, though I'm not sure that we would ever be able to repeat it!