A central question for fans of famed comics writer Harvey Pekar, who passed away in 2010, was whether he would produce a sequel to his 1978 classic, “Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines.” In that legendary R. Crumb-illustrated grouse, Pekar slow-burned a lament about his tribal relationship to old Jewish women and their irritating frugality. It took 30 years to appear, but now that sequel, “Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me,” has finally arrived. Pekar’s fraught history of Israel has been published posthumously, brilliantly illustrated and coaxed out of Cleveland’s cold earth by artist J.T. Waldman.
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