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Thank you for starting this topic Hatches.. Tom Murrin / The Alien Comic was our own Lipstick Traces from the Dadaists, a direct line from the Cabaret Voltaire to the stages of 8 BC, LaMama, Jackie 60, PS 122 and everywhere that really mattered in between. If you knew Tom or had ever seen one of his performances, you will know what a loss this is. From the entire Jackie Factory family, deepest condolences to all of his many fans, family and friends.

I like this Trav S.D. post on Tom's death, on Travalanche http://travsd.wordpress.com/20...12/r-i-p-tom-murrin/

Before ever knowing of Tom's contribution to performance art, I first met him as my neighbor when I lived on Ridge street with Faux Pas yeargo ago. Always smiling, always encouraging, always making the effort to support our fledgling careers. A wonderful man. Thru the years I learned of his performances and had a great conversation with Penny Arcade about him and what he gave to the downtown performance scene that soon travelled all across university campuses and was soon called "performance...

Alien Comic was a brand name decades before art marketeers and every aspiring stage denizen wanted to be one.For a long period of time it seemd you could not pick up a local publication with event listings and not find Tom there. That is the mark of a true creative resource, just his ubiquitessness, and it reflected the tremendous output of the fellow, the widespread respect he had built and the eagerness of the audience to want more and more. Also, now, it is like we have to remind...

Oh god no. This is horrible. He was such a sweetheart and a brilliant man.

An informal wake for TOM MURRIN aka ALIEN COMIC will take place on Sunday, March 18 from 5-7 pm in the garden of St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery. A larger memorial is planned around the full moon of May or June. Please visit this Facebook page for more details: http://www.facebook.com/pages/...omic/147238605322461

It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I pass along this info... Tom Murrin AKA The Alien Comic died this morning in hospital from cancer after a stay of a little more than a week. Tom was a ground-breaker, an influence and an inspiration...

Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon April 12 + 13 | 8pm Abrons Arts Center | 466 Grand Street | NYC Tickets $15 | abronsartscenter.org Presented by Abrons Arts Center; On loan from PS122 Curated by Salley May in collaboration with The Full Moon Crew, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin to celebrate his 27 years of performing in AGA. Featuring video pieces by Larry Fessenden, Love Everyone Movement, and Jo Andres featuring...

HELP (HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT) OF THE ACTORS FUNDis a wonderful new community resource created to support artists who have made or continue to make their careers in NYC's East Village and Lower East Side and are in need of emergency...