Crumb Genesis Book First Print Sell-Out?

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Robert Crumb's The Book Of Genesis Illustrated has been a big hit with the media. The combination of the Bible, comics, and a 1960s icon best known for breaking artistic taboos about sex and human relationships paves the way for everything from a two-line twitter post to an extended feature article. Here's this morning's contribution: a piece in the LA Times entertainment section about research sources and methodology. I've heard unofficially from a couple of sources that it's hard to get a hold of the book at the distribution level right now, indicating strong sales on the first printing. It's difficult to gauge the veracity of such claims without the book publisher jumping in to trumpet it, and sometimes that just confuses things further. Why I think it's worth noting is that if it's selling well, this makes the second half of 2009 a potentially pretty strong comics in bookstores sales period after some book to book softness in late 2008, early 2009.
 
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