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

Values of Europe

The difference between our supposed ideals and the way we act.

1 November 2024

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Cartoon showing a skeletal hand raising a cocktail glass that is filled with dirty water and is also full of cars instead of ice cubes. An umbrella with the colours of the Spanish flag is sticking out. On a table stands a bottle that is labeled 'climate crisis'. In the background we see flooded houses.

Deadly floods in Spain

More extreme weather...

31 October 2024

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Last line of defense

US elections, a tight race.

28 October 2024

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Scary costume contest

Halloween 2024: Who has the scariest costume?

27 October 2024

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Cartoon showing a billboard mounted on a wall. The billboard shows Netanyahu taking a dump into a blue UN helmet. Behind him is a large roll of toilet paper printed with UN logos. The text on the billboard says: 'Bibi's premium quality toilet paper.' Behind the wall we see a devastated landscape with a bombed out school and hospital.

Bibi's Premium Quality Toilet Paper

Netanyahu and the UN.

25 October 2024

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Cartoon showing a cliff made up of different wild animals. Animals are dying and falling off, making the cliff crumble. On top of the cliff is a neighbourhood of houses. The house closest to the cliff edge is also crumbling, while someone inside is watching a news report on the climate tipping point. In the rest of the neighbourhood, people are unloading groceries from an SUV, grilling meat on the BBQ and reading a newspaper with the headline '73% decline wildlife' on a lawn chair.

Wildlife decline

The average size of wildlife populations has declined by 73% in just 50 years,

22 October 2024

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Theater of climate change

Hurricane season

18 October 2024

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Cartoon showing a waterfall; instead of water, people are falling down. The spray at the fall's bottom is blood instead of water. To the side, people dressed in yellow rain ponchos are covered in the blood spray while they are looking at the fall from a terrace. A sign, next to a flag of the EU and a flag of the USA, reads 'Gaza falls - viewpoint'.

Gaza falls

The world looks on...

17 October 2024

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Cartoon showing the map of a theme park titled ‘Earth’ with various rides, including a roller coaster named ‘Middle East Madness’, which goes through a ruined building that’s on fire and another roller coaster called ‘Climate Apocalypse’ that has a vertical drop into a pit of fire. There is also a carousel with spinning missiles that has a giant head of Putin on top, and a labyrinth of barb wire titled ‘Migrant Maze’.

Theme park Earth

Enjoy the rides!

14 October 2024

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News consumption

Dutch research shows 78% of young people use social media as their main source of news.

11 October 2024

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Cartoon showing a giant peace symbol. One half of the peace symbol is being constructed by a crane lifting in big bricks and people painting the symbol white, while the other half is being destroyed by tanks, missiles and soldiers. A sign in front of the symbol shows a circle made out of arrows, the symbol for a cycle.

Cycle of history

An endless cycle of construction and destruction.

4 October 2024

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Cartoon showing the arms and hands of a painter holding a paint brush and a palette. Instead of with paint, the palette is filled with various forms of waste, including leaking oil barrels, nuclear waste, old electronic devices and car wrecks. The painter is using the brush to paint the earth full of garbage.

Trashed planet

The world is our canvas.

2 October 2024

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Cartoon showing Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty walking behind a stroller in the shape of a tank with baby Netanyahu sitting inside. They are walking in a landscape devastated by war. Lady Liberty is waving a rattler in the shape of a peace symbol, but Netanyahu isn't interested, and his firing his tank gun instead.

Bad parenting

US is trying to convince Netanyahu to agree to peace, while supplying the means to wage war.

1 October 2024

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Cartoon showing Lady Justice sitting with hear head buried in her arms in despair amidst smoking ruined buildings. A child in torn clothing is handing her a teddy bear for comfort. On the ground are the scales of justice and a torn book with the title 'Law of war'. In the background is a signpost. The signs are riddled with bullet holes and read 'Gaza', 'Israel' and 'Lebanon'.

Law of war

International law is dead.

30 September 2024

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Cartoon showing a street with apartment buildings. People inside the apartments and walking on the street are all staring at a smartphone, laptop or tablet. Each person has a big straw stuck inside its head, which is connected to an even bigger straw that is running down the middle of the street. The giant straw passes through a wall that has a sign that reads 'Private - No Entry'. Behind the wall the straw divides and leads to the corporate offices of Apple, Google and Meta.

Data collection

Privacy is an illusion.

22 September 2024

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