Tjeerd Royaards

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Tjeerd Royaards is editorial cartoonist and cartoon editor for the Cartoon Movement.

Want to see more of my work? www.tjeerdroyaards.com

Cartoon showing the inside of a factory. On the top floor, eggs are hatching, and baby doves are carried to a hole in the floor by robot arms, where they are dropped to the story below. Here the doves get filled up with explosives, while another robot arm puts an olive branch in their beaks, before they are dropped a floor lower. Here they fall into the bottom half of a mold shaped like a missile, before the top half of the mold comes down and presses them into their final shape. Outside the factory, there

Peace through strength

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

17 July 2026

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Cartoon showing the front of an oil tanker named ‘My Deal’. Trump is on the bow in a very ornate captain’s uniform, looking up with a red, angry face at a control booth on the shore, next to an Iranian flag and a traffic light that hangs over the water with a sign that reads ‘Strait of Hormuz’. The traffic light has a normal green and orange light (which are off at the moment), but the red light is the point of a missile that’s fed through from the back by a guide rail.

Strait of Hormuz

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

13 July 2026

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Cartoon showing a large store with a parking lot in front. People are walking with loaded shopping carts, and loading stuff they bought into their SUVs. The store has a large sign on the roof that reads 'Progress'. Behind the store, we see a large planet earth. Numerous hoses and pipes are plugged into the earth, and the resources that are extracted flow into the store.

Progress

What we call progress.

11 July 2026

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Cartoon showing part of a large clock face on the ground. Instead of numbers, the clock is marked by months: May, June, July and August are visible. A sign stands next to the clock face: 'European Summer Time'. The clock face in front of the big hand is a forest, while the big hand (progressing through the months) is a row of trees that is on fire. Behind the big hand, the ground is bare with tree stumps. In front of the big hand, a row of caravans and camper vans is evacuating the forest, together with var

European Summer Time

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

10 July 2026

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Fast news

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

7 July 2026

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Cartoon showing a touristic coast, completely filled with resorts, restaurants and bars, and teeming with tourists. A tiny piece of cliff with grass is still free; a sign proclaims it to be 'The very last piece of pristine nature'. A ticket booth is selling tickets for 200 euro for 5 minutes access. People are standing in line to take a selfie at sunset on the cliff.

Summer season 2026

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

3 July 2026

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Cartoon showing a cliff. At the top of the cliff is a house with a 'For Sale' sign. Two see-saw like contraptions stand at the bottom of the cliff. One has a giant money bag labeled 'Inheritance' at one end, which is so heavy that the other end, which is a basket containing a family, is being lifted to the top of the cliff. A real estate agent is welcoming them. The basket of the other see-saw, also containing a family, is on the ground, while the other end is still up in the air, having just a small bag la

Housing market

Inequality in the housing market. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

29 June 2026

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Cartoon showing a street with a LED sign that reads 'EXTREME HEAT WARNING: Stay inside'. We see apartment blocks with large air-conditioning units mounted on the outside and roofs of the buildings. Inside we see happy people staying cool. Numerous large air-conditioning vents are blowing hot air outside, over a slum where people are desperately trying to stay in the shade under tattered parasols and under plastic sheets.

Climate inequality

How rich and poor deal with the climate crisis.

28 June 2026

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Climate grill

Heatewave in Europe, the new summer normal. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

26 June 2026

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Cartoon showing a wall with sculptures. Giant sculptured heads of Trump, Putin and Pinocchio are spewing forth green liquid from their mouths and long nose respectively, while the rest of the wall is adorned with sculptured skulls. Next to this wall, people are wading through a rising tide of green liquid. A boat made of a newspaper floats in the middle with a sign that reads 'Journalism: Facts, context & analysis'. A person is trying to get people on board, but they walk by, ignoring the boat entirely.

Trust in news media declining

Trust in news media is declining, at

26 June 2026

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Cartoon showing a camping on one side, and a migrant return hub on the other side, separated by a wall. The camping entrance has a sign that reads 'Eurocamping' and shows four stars. There a pool with people lounging, and a camper van is entering the cam grounds, filled with happy vacationers. Frontex officers are escorting a cuffed person of color to the return hub, which is a dusty area filled with tents. There is a line waiting for one filthy toilet.

Summer in Europe

European summer of apartheid. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

19 June 2026

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Cartoon showing an ATM with a golden sign that says 'CEO Elite Banking'. An arm dressed in a pinstripe suit is visible, pulling a stack of bills from the ATM. The screen of the ATM says 'Profit payout'. On the inside of the ATM is a miniature factory, where exploited workers are producing the bills under harsh conditions. On the bottom floor, people are mixing toxic green paint for the money bills; a bucket full of paint is hoisted up to the top floor, where there is a sweatshop where people are painting th

Making profit

Making profit, at the expense of others.

18 June 2026

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Cartoon showing a giant tick sucking the world dry. The body of the tick is a giant money bag with a dollar sign and the legs are giant steel pipes, that are plugged into the earth together with the head, extracting its resources. At the top a the tick's body is a gated community filled with opulent villas that have roof pools and helicopter landing pads. A golden gate labeled 'The 1%' gives access to the villas.

Parasite

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

15 June 2026

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Cartoon showing the front and a cross-section of a museum. On the front, we see a red banner with a picture of a human brain and ‘Museum of Human Ingenuity’ in gold letters. The cross section of the museum shows two floors. On the top floor we see a swing, a bookcase, an assortment of musical instruments and a painting of a human watering a tree. On the bottom floor there is a similar arrangement of items, but the swing has now become a noose, the bookcase a guillotine, the musical instruments are now and a

Museum of human ingenuity

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

12 June 2026

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Cartoon showing a FIFA World Cup stadium from the top and side. We see Donald Trump lounging naked as an emperor in a pavilion amidst the audience, eating a McDonalds burger. The side of the stadium is a cross-section: on the second floor, we see FIFA officials bathing in a pool of money, while workers are carrying in more profits. On the first floor ICE officials are locking up people of color in prison cells.

FIFA World Cup 2026

Trump, FIFA and the World Cup.

5 June 2026

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