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 Grim Reaper driving a military transport carrying a large nuclear missile labeled '2025' past a stand with world leaders Trump, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un and Putin. In front of the transport, a man is running towards a hatch in the road that leads down into an emergency shelter, carrying a box labeled 'Apocalypse Survival Kit'.

Will we survive 2025?

Challenging year ahead.

3 January 2025

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Cartoon showing a giant electric glass kettle with the word ‘Oceans’ on the side. The kettle is heating up water, as indicated by a glowing red button on the side labeled ‘Climate change’. Inside the kettle, we see various fish, a whale, a crab, a starfish and a sea turtle with their fins pressed against the glass, looking anxiously down at the button.

Our oceans are heating up

Climate crisis affecting sea life.

30 December 2024

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Cartoon showing children in a refugee camp from above, drawing pictures of a house, sun and flower in the dirt with sticks, using bomb craters in the ground as the start of their drawings. A mother comes running, as the shadow of a fighter jet dropping bombs is visible overhead.

Conflict areas

According to the UN, more than one in six children globally now live in areas affected by conflic

29 December 2024

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Cartoon showing a big weapons factory where missiles, tanks and fighter jets are being constructed. A dump truck is offloading a giant pile of money into the factory. Next to the factory, poor people have built shelters out of cardboard and old tents; a dumpster is filled with garbage. Among the garbage we see plans to end world hunger and to create a global healthcare system. In the background, we see a war zone, with homes being destroyed by missiles that are produced in the factory.

War economy

The war business is booming.

29 December 2024

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Cartoon showing a castle wall with an ornate shield on it with the text 'rich countries'. A wooden crane at the top of the castle wall is lowering a bucket of water labeled 'climate fund for poor countries', while the people at the top of the wall are smiling and giving a thumbs up to the people at the bottom of the wall, who are staring angrily upward. In the background an enormous fire is ravaging the countryside.

Climate fund for poor countries

Rich countries promise to help poor countries to fight climate change.

2 December 2024

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Cartoon showing the grim reaper and the devil sitting on a couch playing a video game that shows a split screen; on the one half of the screen, Netanyahu is in a fighter plane dropping bombs, on the other half of the screen, Putin is doing the same. On the floor, amidst discarded pizza boxes, lies the box of the game with the tile ‘Kill Count: Vlad vs. Bibi’.

War games

Kill Count: Vlad versus Bibi.

24 November 2024

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Cartoon showing Trump as a giant kraken; his face is the body of the kraken, while the tentacles are made up of Trump’s hair. The kraken is devouring a sailing ship with his tentacles, breaking the masts. The ship has a flag that reads ‘progressive America’ and a rainbow flag. Underwater, next to the kraken, we see a small Lady Justice and Lady Liberty sinking to the bottom.

The demise of progressive America

Going down...

15 November 2024

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Cartoon showing a wall and a Gaza gateway. The gate is locked with a padlock with the Israeli flag on it. Behind the gate are Gazans who want to escape the violence, and behind them we see rows of bodies. In front of the gate, Israeli soldiers are busy placing various prohibition signs with the texts 'humanitarian aid prohibited', 'prohibited to use the term "genocide"', 'no journalists allowed', 'criticism of Israel = anti-Semitism' and 'international law does not apply here'.

Gate to Gaza

Signs...

9 November 2024

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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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