Top Shelf Released January 1999

The Birth Caul #1 (1999)

The Birth Caul #1 is the premiere issue of the The Birth Caul series from Top Shelf, released January 1, 1999. Written by Alan Moore with artwork by Eddie Campbell. This page represents the regular first-print edition.

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Published January 1999
Cover Price $5.95
Pages 48

It started life as Alan Moore's reading/performance piece in 1995 at the county courthouse in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, where it was sound-taped and subsequently released as a (very hard to obtain) CD. Recognized as Alan's writing at its very best, the work is by turns autobiographical and surreal. It takes us on an odyssey we can never undertake, a journey back into the womb and beyond, to the soul.