[Last edited: 12 July 2025]
2D Fictional Comedy
Bru & Boegie are best friends who live in KiffTown.
Bru’s a white guy. He has bad ideas and he’s dumb and confident enough to act on them.
Boegie’s a black guy. He’s a sensitive soul. He’s smarter than Bru and worries about him.
They always hang out with their hands in their underpants.
The genre is surreal comedy with rarefied humour, and spans comic books, animated shorts and videogames.
Bru & Boegie are my home dolla boiz, created when I was studying Fine Arts and Rhodes University back in 2002. It’s the passion project I’m forever making an effort to get off the ground. I’ve included the history of Bru & Boegie at the bottom of this page.
Below are Bru & Boegie projects from newest to oldest. Where the title is a link, it usually directs towards a blog I wrote about it.
Bru & Boegie: Episode 1 – Get da MILK! (2025)
The first Bru & Boegie game I made, a point and click adventure where you are Bru and you need milk for your coffee. It’s a fully hand-drawn and animated world, featuring a fully-voiced cast and an original soundtrack. The game was featured on the front page of itch.io, got 34k+ browser plays and 4k+ downloads, and an average rating of 4.8/5 stars. The game is landing on Steam later this year (2025).
https://mikdog.itch.io/bru-boegie-get-da-milk
Bru & Boegie: Meteorite [Trailer] (2023)
A trailer for my upcoming short ‘Bru & Boegie: METEORITE’.
Bru & Boegie: Chutney (2021)
A short about Mrs. Balls chutney – a staple food here in South Africa.
Bru & Boegie: Perfect Circle (2020)
Can you draw a perfect circle? Bru can… until he tries too hard.
Bru & Boegie: The Movie (South Africa’s First Full-Length 2D Animated Movie) (2019)
I made South Africa’s first full-length 2D animated movie. It’s even on Wikipedia.
Bru & Boegie: Freelance Mountain (2019)
A short I made for fun, where Bru fires himself. Classic.
Bru & Boegie: Love (2017)
Another short made for fun, where Boegie weaponises the power of Love.
Bru & Boegie: Feelin’ It (2016)
Probably one of my favourite Bru & Boegie shorts, this one was featured on Cartoon Brew as ‘Short of the Day’ and the phrase ‘Feelin’ It’ is often referenced to me in person by those that have seen it. I recorded the voices without a script and edited it down later.
Bru & Boegie: Gig (2015)
Another one of my favs, drawn I think in a sketchbook with pen and later animated, wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this but it turned out really funny and nailed the long-time suffering tone I feel sets Bru & Boegie apart from anything else.
Bru & Boegie: TV Games (ft. The Kiffness) (around 2013/2014)
An animated music video I made for my brother’s song ‘TV Games’.
The Bru Show: Frog (2012)
An experiment where Bru was the lead in his own show. I only did one episode.
Bru & Boegie: Forest Creature (2010)
Made as a test to get to grips with Toon Boom software. Bru does… something, lol.
Bru & Boegie: Unexpected Visitor (2008)
Way back when I created this as an early attempt to see what Bru & Boegie might look like animated if I put in a bit of effort. No real plan to it, but still pleased I have it nonetheless.
Bru & Boegie: Twalaapie Kings T-Shirt (2008)
I made a bunch of Bru & Boegie t-shirts. I mostly gave them out as gifts. I think I have one of my own left that remains of the 20 or so that I made. A twalaapie is when you make a ‘kappie’ with your fingers, and if the other guy looks at it, you can punch him, but if he looks at it through a circle made with the thumb and index finger, he can punch you.
Bru & Boegie: BIG BOOK OF STUFFS! (2008)
I kept making Bru & Boegie comics for my webcomic and a couple publications, and when I had a BUNCH, I made another book. I still have some for sale in my shop.
Bru & Boegie: Cheese (2008)
An early attempt at animating and voicing Bru & Boegie.
Bru & Boegie: Frank Chat (2008)
The first attempt at voicing Bru & Boegie. My brother did Boegie’s voice.
Bru & Boegie: In Hell (2004)
I used to have a Bru & Boegie webcomic that I updated once or twice a week. I was very consistent. When I had enough comics, I made a book. I still have some left for sale in the shop.
History
While I was at Rhodes University from 2001-2002 studying Fine Arts, I was at a crossroads where time collapsed on itself and important decisions got made. I felt the need to create something that I’d be able to continue building on for the rest of my life. The moment was incredibly seminal, I remember it clearly 20+ years later. After creating Mike’s Universe and thinking maybe it was a little too personal of a project, I drew two bald guys in boxers, and one of them (Boegie) was this based on this guy I had drawn back in high school as one of the crowd members for a band poster I drew for our high school rock band Regular and again in a matric art piece in the crowd. The other guy (Bru) was loosely based on this other comic I used to draw at school, a comic called Hair & Beard (Hair was bald). They became Bru & Boegie.
The first Bru & Boegie comics were… pretty unsavoury, lol. I won’t share them here.
I left my Fine Arts degree at Rhodes, and went to Joburg to study at Bond University, a BComm degree (Business of Communications). I kept drawing Bru & Boegie comics while I was studying, putting up a new comic every week or so on my website bruandboegie.co.za until I was regularly putting up a new comic every day. I got the comic published in PC Format magazine as I was into building computers and playing PC games at the time.
There were enough comics to put a little comic book together, so I printed 100, got the first big A1 Bru & Boegie comics framed in glass and went down to Durban for a new Mamba Comix launch. There, my Bru & Boegie comics were exhibited, I had created a new Bru & Boegie comic in colour for the new Mamba (or maybe this one was black & white), and sold my comics.
I moved down to Plettenberg Bay and kept doing Bru & Boegie comics for my website. I got them printed in our local paper CXPress which came out every 2 weeks. Around this time I started running out of capital, and hustled to get freelance animation work. I included Bru & Boegie as small easter eggs hidden in the Goldfish videos I’ve animated.
Then, I had enough content for a big book, and made Bru & Boegie’s BIG BOOK OF STUFFS, got it printed with a colour cover and perfectly bound, and gave these comics away as gifts and sold a few. I also made new Bru & Boegie shirts, Twalaapie Kings. Having done a lot of animation work in Joburg, I started experimenting with animating Bru & Boegie, and things carried on from there.
I pitched Bru & Boegie for the Triggerfish and Disney Story Lab, and it was selected as one of the winning submissions. Disney and Triggerfish held the rights for Bru & Boegie for a while, but because they weren’t keen on Bru & Boegie always wearing underpants (I mean, that’s their thing guys, c’mon), I got the rights back and we made another pilot instead, Dogshow with Cat.
I don’t think I’ll ever sell the rights to Bru & Boegie, but do continue to make them and it gives me immense pleasure enjoying their particular brand of silliness with others.