Side By Side: The Journal of a Smalltown Boy Hardcover – Illustrated, July 1, 2011

This hard cover book is filled with 'Comic Book' drawings and text. The Gay Erotic pictures are excellent. Mioki is a real talent.This is a great book for yourself or as a gift. This hardback book itself is very good quality. Add this to your gay library.

Side by Side by Mioki is a very sweet story with all the zeal of young love. Mioki's comic style allows him to explore every side of the passionate love story of title characters, Rick and Evan. The artwork is bright and clean, with exceptional attention on the backgrounds as well as the men who's lives inhabit this story. The detail really drives home how much the two main characters love, need, and want each other. It's an intense passion that we all want in our own lives. Like a feel good movie or a great novel, Mioki draws you in, so you can experience all the rapture that this simple, yet amazing story has to tell.

Oh my, if you like gay comics this is a must buy. Its not as exaggerated as those drawn by Patrick Fillion, but equally arousing.Its a simple tale of 2 boys from the same small town who grow up and move to the city and fall in love with each other. Excellent artwork, and I hope Mioki does a 2nd and 3rd and more books.

The art is beautiful. I was expecting more story- it is fairly simple on that count. Do not expect a complicated plot. It is mostly about excuses to have many pages of well executed illustrations of graphic sex. The text size is a little small and difficult to read. At times I found myself pulling out a magnifying glass to read it. The faces are a little like the faces you have seen on old sewing catalogues from the 60s and 70s - beautiful but a little interchangeable. After a bit, the sex illustrations as skillfully as they are rendered- start to feel more like bodies having sex rather than like people having sex- which makes them a little less sexy and a little soulless. Perhaps a richer plot would have filled in that void. But the art is beautiful and inspiring for any illustrator who wants to improve their drawing skills. You will see these forms in pretty much every position you can imagine and the artist really knows his anatomy. You could probably use it as a figure drawing reference.

Saw this in a bookstore last summer but didnt have the money to get it then, love this comic, its adorable and amazing, a must read for any gay comic book nerd

Fantastic condition and quick shipment.

Fun book. Great art and storyline. It is very sexual. I have read this and the sequel and recommend them.

Great artist, if you don't object to naked boys sharing themselves with each other, and a few select friends. A really good story, well handled. Got only four stars because I got the feeling that there was some suppression or reluctance that detracted from the otherwise easy flow of the story and artwork. Also, it didn't end the way I wanted it to!