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

A cartoon shows riot police guarding a government building labeled “DEMOCRACY,” now covered by a “REPURPOSED” sign. Politicians including Trump, Orban, Netanyahu and Erdogan inside are urinating and defecating, while protesters and families stand outside, some holding pride flags.

Democracy repurposed

Democracy has become a toilet for would-be autocrats.

12 June 2025

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Cartoon showing Netanyahu dressed as a king with crown and sceptre, wearing the Israel flag as a mantle. He is walking on a red carpet, which is actually a stream of blood left behind by the Grim Reaper walking in front of him. The red, bloody, carpet crosses several red lines that have been painted by a UN official, who is busy painting yet another one.

Red lines

King Bibi on the red carpet...

6 June 2025

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Cartoon showing a movie theater. On the screen, Trump is descending from the heavens seated on a large dove of peace. The movie is titled 'Peacemaker' in large golden letters, with the subtitle 'Filmed in trump-O-Vision'. Behind the screen we see the Trump-O-Vision AI studio. Trump is being filmed while hopping around on a stick horse with a peace dove head. People at the studio controls are turning the footage into what people see on the large screen.

Trump-O-Vision

Trump, the peacemaker

30 May 2025

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Cartoon showing living room and kitchen. In the kitchen, a person is looking into an empty fridge shaped like the planet earth. In the living room, two persons are sitting on the couch; one of them is eating a pizza with trees as topping from a box that is labeled 'rainforest'. The other one is eating a bun filled with wild animals. The floor is littered with (fish)bones and empty oil cans. The person eating the pizza calls out to the person at the fridge: 'what do you mean, empty?'

Resource depletion

Emptying out the earth.

26 May 2025

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Cartoon showing a Roman arena. Netanyahu sits on a throne under a canopy with a table full of food in front of him, while servants are bringing out more dishes. In one hand he's holding a chicken leg, while with the other he's giving a thumbs down to the people in the arena, the starving people in Gaza. An audience of UN and EU politician looks on.

Hunger games

Hunger in Gaza.

23 May 2025

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Playground

The world's a playground (just not a very fun one).

19 May 2025

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Cartoon showing a settlement with an Israeli flag waving and a sign that reads 'Welcome to New Gaza - ethnically cleansed since 2025'. Two kids are using a pair of swings. The swings are actually the scales of justice of a giant skeleton of Lady Justice that is buried mostly underground, amidst a multitude of skeletal human remains. On of the skeletons is still holding a small, torn, Palestinian flag.

After the genocide

Gaza, in about five years...

18 May 2025

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Cartoon showing two military groups fighting, while their brains climb out of the top of their heads and walk off carrying backpacks and suitcases, as if they were refugees of war.

Refugees of war

Humanity seems to have an endless capacity for mindless violence.

16 May 2025

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Cartoon showing Elon Musk on a bulldozer labeled 'Doge' pushing against the Statue of Liberty, causing it to fall down on a Tesla dealership, crushing the building and the cars inside. An employee is running out of the building showing Musk a graph of steeply falling Tesla sales.

Collateral damage

Tesla sales and profit plummet because of Musk's political activities.

4 May 2025

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Cartoon showing the front of a luxurious building with a sign 'Big tech spa' and the logos of Apple and Meta. Inside, men are bathing in a pool of cash while a tap is filling the pool with money even further. In the open front door, an angry man dressed in a towel is standing, looking at a police officer that is handing him a fine. Another police officer is pointing though the basement window; in the basement, rows of people are staring at their smartphones like zombies, while pipes go inside their head.

EU verus Big Tech

Europe fines Meta and Apple.

2 May 2025

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Cartoon showing a square with large LED billboards showing the news, including the giant face of Trump talking, the genocide in Gaza and a landscape devastated by climate change. Some people are walking around depressed, reading a newspaper or staring at their phone, while many others stand in line for a booth with a sign that reads ‘News free zone, 10€ per 5 minutes’. Inside the booth, a happy person is looking at a relaxing nature scene that is projected on the wall.

News free zone

News avoidance as a new business model.

25 April 2025

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Cartoon showing the inside of a factory, where the earth is in the process of being flattened and hammered by various pieces of equipment. In a control room, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and Kim Jong-un are manipulating controls, screens show a graph labeled ‘democracy’ going sharply down, while a graph labeled ‘oppression’ is going sharply up. Various other displays show the climate crisis and rising inequality.

Control room

Who's in control?

23 April 2025

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Cartoon showing a person with a head shaped like the planet earth lying dead on the ground with blood coming out of his mouth. In his hand, he is grasping an open bottle of pills with a skull on the label. The pills are shaped like missiles and are scattered on the floor.

Overdose

An overdose of violence...

23 April 2025

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Red line

War crimes versus refugees.

17 April 2025

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Cartoon showing a robotic vacuum cleaner, controlled by a man in a suit labeled 'big tech'. The vacuum hose is sucking the paint from a canvas while the artist stands helplessly by. The side of the vacuum cleaner is a robot head that is spitting out image after generated image to a line of happy people waiting for their turn. Behind the man in the suit, a pipe is spitting out money into a giant bin.

AI & art

The future of art?

17 April 2025

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