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

Happy Valentine's Day, earth!

Valentine's Day.

14 February 2026

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Cartoon showing the inside of a shopping mall with different stores and people walking around with shopping bags. One store sells fascist paraphernalia and has the text 'Celebrating Fascism' on its window. Another store is called 'Outrage: Fact-Free Opinions'. Two other stores are titled 'Manosphere' and 'Tradwives' and feature pictures of a muscular man and a smiling woman in a housewife's dress respectively. In the corner of the mall is a closed bookshop with the text 'Human rights, democracy, diversity.

2026 shopping mall

If 2026 were a shopping mall, it would probably look like this.

13 February 2026

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Cartoon showing an artificial ski slope; a number of snow cannons are maintaining the slope, while the mountains behind, as well as some pine trees to the side, seem to be made from plywood. A giant basin of water is supplying the snow cannons and a large Diesel generator is providing power. Behind the ski slope we see a desert with a caravan of camels; the person leading the camels is looking up a t a large billboard that is advertising the Winter Olympics of 2058.

Winter Olympics of the future

Imagining the Winter Games of 2058. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

9 February 2026

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Cartoon showing two neighboring houses. One house shows people watching a movie and listening to music. A thermostat on the wall indicates it's 21 degrees Celsius inside. A person is holding a smartphone in his hands with a low battery symbol visible on the display. He is looking a a socket to charge it; the socket is currently taken by a plug that connect to a cord that goes outside and to the roof of the house, where it is powering a large LED sign on the roof. The sign reads: 'Europe stands with Ukraine'

European solidarity

Europe stands with Ukraine...kind of.

8 February 2026

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Cartoon showing a cardboard box labeled 'Epstein Files'. A man is holding on to a line, while a woman in cave climber gear is descending into the box by this line. Below the box extends a giant cave filled with files and folders. She hangs in the middle of the cave, shining a flashlight at some of the files and on a red tie that is hanging out one of the folders. We catch glimpse of the red tie between all the files and eventually it leads to a sweating Donald Trump, who is hidden behind stacks of files and

Eptein files

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

6 February 2026

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European autonomy

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

30 January 2026

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Cartoon showing ICE agents on a television news broadcast. One agent is pointing a gun at a protester who is holding up a sign with the word 'STOP'. Another agent is pressing a knee to the neck of a black man lying on the ground. In the foreground, Lady Liberty has been shot and is lying dead on the ground. An ICE agent stands next to her and is holding up her crown with the seven spikes. The news ticker reads 'ICE shoots domestic terrorist - "She was about to stab us"'

ICE shoots another domestic terrorist

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

26 January 2026

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Cartoon showing Donald Trump sitting in a giant baby activity center chair with large colorful buttons in front of him labeled with the symbol of nuclear weapons and 'War' and 'Tariffs'. He is positioned in front of a large viewing glass. Behind the glass the earth is desperately holding his hands to the glass while a machine drills a hole in Venezuela and a large claws grabs Greenland. Behind Trump stand someone from the UN (doing nothing), Usrsula von der Leyen from te EU (looking angrily at the plug that

Lil' Dictator Activity Center

The immediate Greenland crisis seems averted, but which button will the Lil' Dictator push next?&

22 January 2026

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Ready to take on Trumpzilla?

Europe versus Trump. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

19 January 2026

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Cartoon showing the Grim Reaper driving a street sweeper with ‘Oppression - anti-protest services’ written on the side. The rotating brush in front of the machine is shaped like Khamenei, with his beard cleaning the blood of shot down protesters. The protesters are shot down by a riot police man, also attached to the street sweeper (like a cleaning attachment) and controlled by the Grim Reaper from the cabin. The machine is surrounded by Iranian protesters, holding up signs that say ‘Free Iran’. One of the

Free Iran!

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

16 January 2026

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Wheel of misfortune

Cartoon for Belgian newspaper De Morgen.

13 January 2026

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Cartoon showing a monument with golden statues of Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping, each holding up 1/3 of the world. The pedestal of the monument reads:'World Order. Est. MMXXVI'. Riot police stand around, looking menacing, while people fearfully walk around the monument. On the side of the pedestal graffiti reads 'Democracy + human rights'. A woman is running away, having dropped a can of spray paint on the ground; she is being chased by two riot police men waving batons.

VladXiDonocracy

Welcome to the VladXiDonocracy. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

12 January 2026

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Cartoon showing a one-man-band robot playing a flute, accordion and drums simultaneously, while also featuring large screens and a printer spewing out text documents and pictures. A large mesmerized crowd is following the robot down the street. Heading in the opposite direction we seen a funeral procession; the coffin has a photo of a human brain on it and is carried by a painter, a photographer, a musician and a writer. In the back of the cartoon is a fancy building with a brass sign next to the front door

RIP human(-made) creativity?

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Note: this cartoon was made without any use of AI.

9 January 2026

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Cartoon showing Donald Trump riding in a golf cart with a blue flashlight on top, together with US soldiers. The cart is pulling a freight cart with Nicolas Maduro tied up in it, as well as a bunch of oil drums. The side of the freight cart reads ‘Team America: World Police’. Behind the cart Lady Justice is lying one the ground; she has just been run over. A book titled ‘International Justice’ has fallen from her hands. Meanwhile, the golf cart has stopped at an intersection with a sign that points to Canad

Where to next?

What will be Trump's next target? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

5 January 2026

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Cartoon showing a street with people doing Christmas shopping, carrying lots of presents and heavy bags full of groceries. On the wall we see Christmas posters with the texts ‘A time to share’ and ‘Peace on earth and goodwill to all’. Below the street is an arch with a poor migrant family; two children are using crayons to draw a Christmas tree and presents on the wall. An ICE raiding team is descending down from the street, guns out, to arrest the migrant family and deport them.

Goodwill to all

The holiday season: a time to share, a time of goodwill and a time to deport migrants...

22 December 2025

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