A super book about the spectrum

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Sometimes, the best comic books aren’t about superheroes. Sometimes, they’re about ordinary people in extraordinary situations told in an extraordinary way. And that is exactly what you get with “Doobiedoo Asks,” the semiautobiographical comic book from writer Bambi Eloriaga-Amago and artist Roland Amago. This entertaining, informative, funny and heartbreaking comic book revolves around the Amagos’ finding out that their precocious if somewhat peculiar son, nicknamed “Doobiedoo,” is on the autism spectrum when the child was 8.

First things first, what’s with the nickname? “I have many nicknames for my son and Doobiedoo is one of them. I picked it up from Frank Sinatra’s …

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