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 an enormous turtle with men in suits sitting on top holding bags of money. The head of the turtle is a chimney with lots of black smoke coming out. On the side of the turtle is a sticker that reads 'Towards a sustainable future'. The turtle is on one side of a courtroom. On the other side is a lawyer who is pointing to a drawing on an easel that shows the turtle, but with inline skates on and a cork in its chimney. She is showing this drawing to a number of judges who are pondering the case.

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Cartoon showing the world stage with an audience of politicians and media. On the stage, Netanyahu and Khamenei are wrestling. In the back, Putin is pulling in a backdrop that shows the flags of Israel and Iran, covering up the old backdrop that was the Ukrainian flag. We can just see Zelensky, who is about to be covered by the new backdrop, holding up a sign that reads 'Support Ukraine'.

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Cartoon showing a EU committee meeting. A man is staring in front of a screen which reads: ‘Committee to explore a common European defence strategy: 2024-2028 - exploration, 2029-2035 - discussion, 2036-2039 - budget talks, 2040 - policy recommendation’. He si staring a at a tank, driven by Putin, that has crashed through the wall and is driving through the room, crashing the conference table and crushing the committee members. Cups of coffee and papers fly through the air.

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Cartoon showing an enormous hydraulic press, operated by Netanyahu, who is pushing a red button with a down arrow on it. Under the press, the people of Gaza are crushed. In the background, US president Biden is at a conference table with his senior advisors, saying 'We should apply more pressure!', while holding up a sign that reads 'STOP NOW!'. There is a trail of papers that say 'STOP' from the conference table to Netanyahu.

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Cartoon showing a family standing, smiling and posting, in a beautiful mountain landscape. The landscape, however, is created by giant computer screens. The top menu on one of the screens reads ‘AI Nature Simulator, with a drop-down menu with the options ‘Forest’, ‘Mountains’ and ‘Sea’. The cursor is hovering over the option ‘Mountains’. Behind the screens, we can see a jumble of giant servers, cables and power cords standing in a desolate landscape with a few dead trees in the background. Large pipes go fr

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Cartoon showing a bar graph that indicates the rising global temperature. Each bar is higher than the last from left to right. The bars are also hotels with rooftop pools. The first hotel is called 'Summer Inn' and on the roof people are lounging in the pool. The second hotel is called 'Heat Wave Hotel' and on its roof people are sweating under parasols next to the pool. The third hotel is called 'HOTel' and on its roof people are sheltering in a nearly boiling pool while the parasols have caught on fire. T

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The number of vaccine sceptics is on the rise in the Netherlands, endangering the collective protection against diseases like the measles.

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Cartoon showing a tank with laughing Israeli soldiers on it. Beneath one tread of the tank a car of the World Central Kitchen is crushed, while beneath the other a mother is crushed while her children try to save her. One soldier is writing on the front of the tank 'Moral high ground' with an arrow pointing up.

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Cartoon showing a row of glass tubes labeled ‘Ukraine’, ‘Gaza’, ‘Haiti’, ’Sudan’ and ‘Yemen’. The tubes are being filled with yellow balls showing hearts or sad/angry emojis, by people walking past them. The tubes of Ukraine and Gaza are almost full, while there are only one or two balls in the other tubes. The international media has gathered around the tubes of Gaza and Ukraine, and a big audience in the back is waving Ukrainian and Palestinian flags. Next to the them, there are a lot of empty seats with

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Cartoon showing the outside of a cinema titled '2024'. Movie posters decorate the wall, showing what is playing now and what is coming soon. The posters are titled Gaza (a hand sticking out of a sea of blood), In the trenches (showing exhausted Ukrainian soldiers in a trench), Fascism returns (showing a giant boot stomping on refugees), Push (showing a finger about to push a nuclear button), Orange horror 2 (showing a monster in the shape of Trump) and BBQ (showing the earth being roasted).

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Cartoon showing a giant clock with a grim reaper on the face. His skeletal hands point at 2 to 12. The long hand is being kept in check by ropes that connect to wind turbines.

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Cartoon showing an aid truck standing at an entrance to Gaza, being stopped by Israel soldiers. The boom gate to Gaza has the text ‘moral compass’ written on it and forms a quarter circle. The bottom of the quarter circle is deep red, transitioning to green at the top. The barrier boom is the needle, pointing to the red while it is closed.

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Cartoon with two panels. In the first panel, Trump is lying on a hotel bed eating a McDonald's meal while being on the phone. Next to the bed is a person from Trump's campaign team writing on a whiteboard: 'Vlad's tips for winning the election'. In the second panel we see Putin on the phone while behind him people are staring in line to cast their vote, controlled by police officers, who ensure they are all voting for Putin.

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Cartoon showing an alien in a flying saucer flying above the earth, placing a warning sign with the text 'species in the process of self-destruction'. The earth itself is being stripped bare by industrial activity, mining, deforestation and war, revealing a skull underneath. On the part of the earth that is still remains, part is taken over by polluting factories, and part by skyscrapers with giant billboards that promote buying more and more stuff.

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