バーガー! Original manga series

Comedy first.Heart underneath.

An absurd manga about love, hunger, friendship, and the terrible things we do for the right words.

Created by James Saint Simon

Chad drawing his katana on a rain-soaked harbor at nightNight shift
ComedyRomanceOffice warfareKatana actionSeason 2 in production

Personnel files // classified-ish

Meet the cast

Coworkers, rivals, romantics, and future villains—stacked across two timelines.

01

The original series

Office Era

02
Romaine in her black office suit

Romaine

The heart of the office

Warm, perceptive, and caught inside a romance written in someone else's words.

03
Chester in his white shirt, red tie, and khaki pants

Chester

The handsome new hire

A sincere friend with a good heart, a perfect face, and absolutely no game.

04
Dill in his black jacket and white shirt

Dill

The boss's son

Entitled, combustible, and always one bad decision away from another office brawl.

Romaine smiling and waving from her officeDossier 02

Executive assistant // romantic center

Romaine

Warm heart. Sharp instincts. Complicated inbox.

Smart, capable, and effortlessly warm, Romaine is the emotional center of the office. She sees the tenderness beneath Chad’s bravado—even while falling for beautiful words she believes came from someone else.

Domain
The front office
Strength
Seeing the best in people
Blind spot
The author behind the words
A nervous Chester studying a book about how to talk to womenDossier 03

Business administrator // reluctant romantic

Chester

Perfect face. Good heart. No game.

Handsome, sincere, and almost supernaturally awkward, Chester is the new hire everyone notices. He becomes Chad’s romantic pupil and genuine friend—never realizing how much of Chad’s heart is hidden inside the words he borrows.

Strength
Loyalty
Weakness
Talking to women
Secret weapon
Chad’s vocabulary
Dill grinning in a dark alley with three shadowed men behind himDossier 04

Executive heir // office antagonist

Dill

All ego. First punch. Daddy’s company.

The CEO’s volatile son treats the office like inherited territory. Dill is handsome, privileged, and dangerously accustomed to getting his way—until Chad becomes the one employee who refuses to be intimidated by his title, his temper, or his backup.

Position
The boss’s son
Weakness
His own ego
Special move
Throwing the first punch
A stern Mayo Nessa holding her briefcase in the officeDossier 05

Human Resources // keeper of consequences

Mayo Nessa

Professional. Perceptive. Completely over it.

Mayo Nessa is the office’s unflappable HR authority—the person tasked with translating Chad’s brawls, Dill’s tantrums, and the company’s daily absurdities into something resembling policy. Beneath the formidable stare is a sharp observer who usually understands far more than she lets on.

Department
Human Resources
Strength
Commanding the room
Nemesis
Chad’s incident reports
Cover of Chad the Younger issue 1 beneath cherry blossomsPrequel // Issue 01

Before the office // the prequel series

Chad the Younger

Meet Chad before the Pickle & Pepper Firm—and the friends, rivals, and mentor who shaped the swordsman he would become.

Katsu standing in his black school uniform
KatsuBest friend. Future enemy.
Ume smiling in her school uniform
UmeVolleyball star and catalyst
Anzu reading in her gothic school clothes
AnzuGoth detective with answers
Sensei Miso holding a wooden sword
Sensei MisoRamen master. Sword master.
A younger Chad in his black school uniform holding a crowbar
Young ChadBefore the office. Before the legend.
Explore the prequel

Digital editions

Read the issues

Start the story here with Issues 1–4, then continue in the complete Season 1 library—free, with no account or subscription required.

Start hereChad the Cheeseburger issue 1 cover by James Saint Simon

Issue #1 // Read free

Chad the Cheeseburger #1

A swashbuckling poet with a cheeseburger head enters the tragic love triangle that made Cyrano de Bergerac immortal.

27 pages Full color 3.4 MB

Chad the Cheeseburger issue 2 cover by James Saint Simon

Issue #2 // Read free

Chad the Cheeseburger #2

Chester's first day becomes a crash course in Chad: a break-room feud, an alley brawl, and the beginning of an unlikely bromance.

26 pages Full color 2.9 MB

Chad the Cheeseburger issue 3 cover by James Saint Simon

Issue #3 // Read free

Chad the Cheeseburger #3

Chad takes the Cyrano scheme digital and hides beneath Romaine's balcony, feeding Chester poetry while ninjas close in.

25 pages Full color 2.5 MB

Chad the Cheeseburger issue 4 cover by James Saint Simon

Issue #4 // Read free

Chad the Cheeseburger #4

The love triangle steps into the spotlight as Chad and Dill orbit Romaine—and nobody is saying what they really mean.

27 pages Full color 2.6 MB

Free to read and download. Web-optimized for phones, tablets, and computers.

Production announcement // Season 02

Chad's new intern has entered the building.

Season 2 of Chad the Cheeseburger is officially in production. A new intern is arriving at the Pickle & Pepper Firm, and Chad is about to discover that mentoring may be harder than sword fighting.

Season 2 // In production
Chad's new intern making a dramatic entrance at the Pickle and Pepper FirmIntroducing
the new intern
Chad wearing a red kimono and holding a katana beneath cherry blossoms

More than a food pun

Everybody wants a piece of Chad.

Chad helps other people find love while believing he is unlovable. Behind every office brawl and terrible food pun is a story about identity, friendship, sacrifice, and the fear that people only want us for what they can consume.

“You loved the sauce. I’m just the bun.”
Enter Chad’s world →
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A Mogul Comics original

Created by James Saint Simon

Chad the Cheeseburger mixes absurd workplace comedy, anime-scale action, and sincere romantic tragedy into one very unusual stack. This is the official home of the series, its characters, and upcoming digital editions.

The series was inspired by Edmond Rostand's classic play Cyrano de Bergerac, reimagined with an action-comedy manga twist. In place of Cyrano's famously long nose, our swashbuckling poet has a cheeseburger for a head—but he carries the same gift for words, aching self-doubt, and impossible love. We hope Chad's story makes you laugh and inspires you to read the original play that started it all.