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 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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Cartoon showing a flooded street with the roofs of houses sticking out. People are clinging to a floating billboard that is drifting by, which is promoting cheap airline tickets. In the background, another billboard is promoting cruises; yet another billboard further back urges people to vote for populism stating 'there is no climate crisis'.

Floods in Europe

A direct consequence of our Western lifestyle.

18 September 2024

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Cartoon showing a cliff with a giant pool on top filled with money, with a few superrich swimming in and lounging by the pool. A vertical conveyor belt transporting money from the bottom of the cliff to the pool is powered by people on unicycles, balancing precariously on a spinning rod. Signs on the cliff face read 'keep pedaling' One person has fallen off the unicycle and is falling down, passing a red painted line on the cliffside, with the text 'poverty line'.

Wealth accumulation

How the rich keep getting richer.

7 September 2024

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Cartoon showing the earth with a plank balanced on it; on one side is a giant metal ball labeled 'climate crisis'; on the other side is an overloaded shopping cart, filled with meat, airplanes, SUV's, big houses etc., being pushed by a prosperous family. An Amazon done is delivering a package into the shopping cart, making is so heavy that the plank will be pushed down on the cart's side, allowing the metal ball to run over the family.

Tipping point

Let's buy some more stuff!

5 September 2024

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Signpost

Every road leads to war...

2 September 2024

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Cartoon showing a massive travel trolley rolling down an Amsterdam street, being pushed by a massive horde of tourists. On the side of the tourists, the street is full of hotels, souvenir shops and burger restaurants. On the other side, local shops are going out of business (to be taken over by new burger restaurants) and people are moving out.

Mass tourism

The seemingly unstoppable force of mass tourism.

26 August 2024

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Cartoon with the world on a char watching a big screen TV that is showing the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Behind the world is a sheer vertical wall that drops down from the floor, with black and yellow stripes to mark the edge. A sign on the wall reads 'Threshold to qualify for global attention'. People are climbing on a pile of skulls carrying a TV that shows the war in Sudan, trying to reach over the wall.

Forgotten war in Sudan

The main focus is on the violence in Gaza and Ukraine, while other conflicts are forgotten.

23 August 2024

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Cartoon showing a giant bear with a bloody mouth crouching with his head down and pawing through ruined buildings, which are on fire. Ukrainian soldiers are climbing on its head and progressing toward Putin in a line across the bear's back. Putin is holding reigns which are connected to the bear's mouth and is looking scared and startled.

Unforeseen consequences...

Ukrainian forces continue to advance into Russia.

18 August 2024

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Cartoon showing the Russian bear as an Imperial walker from Star Wars. Zelenksy is in a snow speeder looping a rope around the legs of the walker while flying into Russian territory.

Ukrainian offensive

If the war in Ukraine was a Star Wars battle...

14 August 2024

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