Pizza is tasty. But you can't eat it every day.

I thought I'd try to come up with 10 comics recommendations that show greater social awareness and (genuine) cultural diversity than the 'X-Men'.

I am particularly interested in comics that are accessible to new readers of the form, and can be purchased without too much complication. i.e.

1. Rep. John Lewis' 'March'.

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/march/760

2. Saga

http://io9.com/10-reasons-you-should-be-reading-brian-k-vaughan-s-sag-756300575
3. Happy that there is a USA edition of Lat's Kampung Boy.

http://datolatdigitallibrary.blogspot.com/p/kampung-boy.html

4. From New Zealand

Maui: Legends of the Outcast
https://thepatronsaintofsuperheroes.wordpress.com/tag/maui-legends-of-the-outcast/

5. American Born Chinese

6. Anything by 'Los Bros Hernandez'

 
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/09/we-dont-know-how-to-sell-out-talking-with-los-bros-hernandez-at-this-years-national-book-festival/

7. Aya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_of_Yop_City

http://www.theunexpectedtnt.com/2010/04/aya-secrets-come-out-volume-3.html

8. Perseopolis, Marjane Satrapi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_%28comics%29

9. Wake / Sillage:

A comic about colonialism, set in space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28comics%29

10. Keith Knight:

Chivalry Ain't Dead https://medium.com/the-nib/the-outcome-of-income-inequality-c813a52f00fc

Honorable Mention:

Vision Machine

.. this hasn't won any awards but it's cool fast pop. And totally free to download.

http://visionmachine.net/download/

100 Demons

Lynda Barry
http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticcomicsco/100demons.html