Tjeerd Royaards

@tjeerdroyaards.com

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Political cartoonist for Dutch newspaper Trouw and international media. Also editor-in-chief of Cartoon Movement. Cartoons in English and Dutch.

Cartoon showing the inside of a factory. On the top floor, eggs are hatching, and baby doves are carried to a hole in the floor by robot arms, where they are dropped to the story below. Here the doves get filled up with explosives, while another robot arm puts an olive branch in their beaks, before they are dropped a floor lower. Here they fall into the bottom half of a mold shaped like a missile, before the top half of the mold comes down and presses them into their final shape. Outside the factory, there is a sign that shows a muscular dove of peace with one paw on a pile of skulls and the text 'Peace through strength'. Missiles are loaded up to a fighter jet, while in the background we see another fighting jet already firing missiles into a ruined city on fire.

Cartoon showing a man trying hard to shut the front door of his house; the door is hard to close because Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, a nuclear bomb and skulls are trying to spill out of the house,. In the background, his wife is struggling to load suitcases into an already full car.

Cartoon showing a pool filled with blood, with Putin and Netanyahu lounging on an airbed and an inflatable tire, drinking champagne. The blood is flowing into the pool from several streams, coming from a ruined school, a hospital and a playground. A sign reads 'Holiday resort for war criminals'.

Cartoon showing the front of an oil tanker named ‘My Deal’. Trump is on the bow in a very ornate captain’s uniform, looking up with a red, angry face at a control booth on the shore, next to an Iranian flag and a traffic light that hangs over the water with a sign that reads ‘Strait of Hormuz’. The traffic light has a normal green and orange light (which are off at the moment), but the red light is the point of a missile that’s fed through from the back by a guide rail. In the booth controlling the traffic light we see a general of the revolutionary guard.

Cartoon showing a wrecked boat, floating vertically, and half under water. The bottom half is recognizable as a boat with wooden benches, while on the top half the hull has most vanished, and the benches now form the rungs of a ladder, reaching for the twelve golden stars of Europe.

Cartoon showing a large store with a parking lot in front. People are walking with loaded shopping carts, and loading stuff they bought into their SUVs. The store has a large sign on the roof that reads 'Progress'. Behind the store, we see a large planet earth. Numerous hoses and pipes are plugged into the earth, and the resources that are extracted flow into the store.

Cartoon showing part of a large clock face on the ground. Instead of numbers, the clock is marked by months: May, June, July and August are visible. A sign stands next to the clock face: 'European Summer Time'. The clock face in front of the big hand is a forest, while the big hand (progressing through the months) is a row of trees that is on fire. Behind the big hand, the ground is bare with tree stumps. In front of the big hand, a row of caravans and camper vans is evacuating the forest, together with various animals. Fire fighters and a firefighting plane are trying to keep the fire under control.

Cartoon showing the inside of a museum. A sign reads: 'Exhibition - Views on migration. Several paintings showing migrants in different styles are on display, with signs above them that read 'impressionism', 'pointillism', 'expressionism'. The final painting is much larger and shows a horde of black grinning demons with rd glowing eyes. The sign above it reads 'populism'.

A cartoon shows a NATO meeting disrupted by fanfare as Trump enters on a red carpet, greeted by a woman with a cooling fan and two waiters serving McDonald’s. His gold throne and flag are displayed near the American flag.

Cartoon showing a news van labeled ’24/7 FAST NEWS’. A large frame is mounted on the back of the van, and a camera person is filming what’s inside the frame, in this case a bombed village and people standing with a sign that reads ‘Help’. The van is moving, and one of the persons in the village is running along, trying to keep in the frame, while the camera person is looking at gauges that show the next item is coming up in 3 seconds, and that the audience is losing interest. Meanwhile, the person driving the van is looking at a screen labeled ‘New radar’ and another screen that is fleshing red, reading ‘TRUMP ALERT’.

Cartoon showing a touristic coast, completely filled with resorts, restaurants and bars, and teeming with tourists. A tiny piece of cliff with grass is still free; a sign proclaims it to be 'The very last piece of pristine nature'. A ticket booth is selling tickets for 200 euro for 5 minutes access. People are standing in line to take a selfie at sunset on the cliff.

Cartoon showing a family of three (father, mother, daughter) having a picnic. Behind them we see a flagpole with the European flag. The mother and daughter are looking up at the clouds, pointing out the shapes they see. Above them, white fluffy clouds are making the shapes of a whale, a cat, a bunny and a butterfly. The father is pointing towards the horizon instead, at a dark cloud in the shape of many skulls, emanating from ruined buildings with a torn Ukrainian flag alongside them. The wind is pushing the cloud towards Europe.

Cartoon showing two football players kicking a ball labeled 'FIFA' into a dumpster full of garbage. The players are wearing shirts labeled 'Human rights'.

Cartoon met daarop een luxe SUV die een caravan trekt en de Nederlandse grens passeert richting een vakantiebestemming. Op het dak van de SUV is een dakkoffer gemonteerd met de tekst 'Holiday Fun' en op de caravan staat de tekst 'Sun Chaser Deluxe'. In de auto is de vrouw in de bijrijdersstoel de Happinez aan het lezen, terwijl de man boos naar buiten kijkt waar de marechaussee een aantal vluchtelingen bij de grens aanhoudt. De man roept vanuit de auto: 'Bah, gelukszoekers!'

Cartoon showing a cliff. At the top of the cliff is a house with a 'For Sale' sign. Two see-saw like contraptions stand at the bottom of the cliff. One has a giant money bag labeled 'Inheritance' at one end, which is so heavy that the other end, which is a basket containing a family, is being lifted to the top of the cliff. A real estate agent is welcoming them. The basket of the other see-saw, also containing a family, is on the ground, while the other end is still up in the air, having just a small bag labeled 'Savings' on it. A billboard on the cliff face reads' Invest in the future Buy a house!'

Cartoon showing a street with a LED sign that reads 'EXTREME HEAT WARNING: Stay inside'. We see apartment blocks with large air-conditioning units mounted on the outside and roofs of the buildings. Inside we see happy people staying cool. Numerous large air-conditioning vents are blowing hot air outside, over a slum where people are desperately trying to stay in the shade under tattered parasols and under plastic sheets.

Cartoon showing Noah's ark floating on a red sea. Instead of Noah, we see Mr. Monopoly, and instead of animals, the ark is filled with bags of money. Smoke stacks sprout from the roof of the ark, spewing black smoke into the orange sky. Corpses of various animals, including an elephant, a polar bear, and a giraffe, are floating in the water.

Cartoon showing a large, open grill with a conveyor belt guiding slices of pizza into it. The open grill looks like a face with a yawning mouth, glowing red. The 'eyes' of the grill are gauges, one showing the month of the year (June), the other showing the temperature (50°C). A label reads 'Climate grill'. The pizza slices have the flags of Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands in them. Spain is already under the grill, and the other countries are already felling the heat as they move closer. People standing on the pizza slices are cowering under parasols to try and protect themselves.

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. The final hotel has a sign that reads 'INFERNO'. It is on fire, while skeletons lay on its roof in a dried up pool.

Cartoon showing the streets of a Mediterranean village. A sign indicates the temperature is 53 degrees Celsius. A family stands with their backs against a wall in a sliver of shade, looking desperate, while in the sunlight tourists are melting into puddles on the ground.

Cartoon waarop een vrouw in Hollandse klederdracht te zien is die met een drietal kamelen door een woestijn-achtig landschap loopt. Op de achtergrond zien we de silhouetten van twee molens. Onderaan de cartoon staat de tekst "Holland - summer season 2035'.

Cartoon showing a wall with sculptures. Giant sculptured heads of Trump, Putin and Pinocchio are spewing forth green liquid from their mouths and long nose respectively, while the rest of the wall is adorned with sculptured skulls. Next to this wall, people are wading through a rising tide of green liquid. A boat made of a newspaper floats in the middle with a sign that reads 'Journalism: Facts, context & analysis'. A person is trying to get people on board, but they walk by, most ignoring the boat entirely. The few people on the newspaper boat are staring at a headline printed on the side of the boat that reads 'Trust in news media declining'.

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.

Cartoon showing a camping on one side, and a migrant return hub on the other side, separated by a wall. The camping entrance has a sign that reads 'Eurocamping' and shows four stars. There a pool with people lounging, and a camper van is entering the cam grounds, filled with happy vacationers. Towards the back, a migrant is cleaning the toilet building. Next to the camping entrance, two white kids in bathing suits are watching Frontex officers are escorting a cuffed person of color to the return hub, which is a dusty area filled with tents. There is a line waiting for one filthy toilet.

Cartoon showing an ATM with a golden sign that says 'CEO Elite Banking'. An arm dressed in a pinstripe suit is visible, pulling a stack of bills from the ATM. The screen of the ATM says 'Profit payout'. On the inside of the ATM is a miniature factory, where exploited workers are producing the bills under harsh conditions. On the bottom floor, people are mixing toxic green paint for the money bills; a bucket full of paint is hoisted up to the top floor, where there is a sweatshop where people are painting the bills. On the middle floor, people are pushing carts loaded with stacks of finished bills. The front cart is in front of the ATM slot and tiny workers are pushing the bills through the slot.

Cartoon showing a giant tick sucking the world dry. The body of the tick is a giant money bag with a dollar sign and the legs are giant steel pipes, that are plugged into the earth together with the head, extracting its resources. At the top a the tick's body is a gated community filled with opulent villas that have roof pools and helicopter landing pads. A golden gate labeled 'The 1%' gives access to the villas.

Cartoon showing the front and a cross-section of a museum. On the front, we see a red banner with a picture of a human brain and ‘Museum of Human Ingenuity’ in gold letters. The cross section of the museum shows two floors. On the top floor we see a swing, a bookcase, an assortment of musical instruments and a painting of a human watering a tree. On the bottom floor there is a similar arrangement of items, but the swing has now become a noose, the bookcase a guillotine, the musical instruments are now and assortment of weapons and missiles, and the paint now shows a nuclear mushroom cloud instead of a tree.

Cartoon consisting of two panels. In the first panel, we see a billboard with a graph showing the rising number of victims of the war in the Middle East. People are walking and driving by, ignoring the billboard. In the second panel we see the same billboard and graph, except that the graph is now showing the rising gas prices. Cars have stopped in the middle of the street and people are looking up in consternation and panic at the billboard.

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.

Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.

Cartoon showing a village behind a dike. A row of gigantic dominoes stretches out to sea, stretching to the horizon. In the distance, we see falling stones rapidly approaching. The front stone, closest to the dike, is labeled "climate crisis." In the village street, a group of far-right demonstrators is protesting against immigrants. Only two sheep and a young boy on the dike watch the falling dominoes.

Cartoon showing a FIFA World Cup stadium from the top and side. We see Donald Trump lounging naked as an emperor in a pavilion amidst the audience, eating a McDonalds burger. The side of the stadium is a cross-section: on the second floor, we see FIFA officials bathing in a pool of money, while workers are carrying in more profits. On the first floor ICE officials are locking up people of color in prison cells. Outside the stadium, people are lining up to enter, while yet more ICE officers are arresting more people of color.

Cartoon showing an open pit mining excavator with the head of Vladimir Putin. The bucket wheel is excavating a cliff with the Russian flag on it; from the back of the excavator, numerous missiles are launched in the direction of Ukraine. From the side of the machine, a pipe is pulling out human skulls and bones. On the Russian cliff, a police an is arresting a peaceful activist.

Cartoon showing a classic Swallow matchbox with lettering that reads 'Ceasefire matches'. Instead of the swallow, the matchbox shows an Israeli F15 firing a missile and a ribbon that says 'Self defense'. Below the F15 are the silhouettes of buildings in ruin, with a sign of a hospital and a school. Further ornaments on the matchbox include a small portrait of Netanyahu, a dove of peace, a skull and the flag of Israel.

Screenshot van de webcam van de radio-uitzending, waarin Tjeerd Royaards achter een microfoon zit.

Cartoon waarop twee kruisende fietspaden te zien zijn. De fietspaden zijn gevuld met voortrazende fatbikes and elektrische bakfietsen. De bakfietsen hebben allemaal toeters en bellen, eentje heeft een bubbelbad met spelende kinderen in de bak, in een andere bakfiets zit een kind te gamen voor een groot scherm. Er is slechts een normale fiets te zien op de fietspaden, deze wordt links en rechts ingehaald door kwaad kijkende mensen op ebikes. Een vrouw probeert tevergeefs over te steken bij een zebrapad.

Cartoon showing people in yellow protective suits standing on a viewing platform looking at a giant waterfall that's formed by many large drain pipes coming from smoking factories in the distance, spewing large amounts of brown water. A sign on top of the 'waterfall' reads 'backside of the world economy' with a counter displaying a very large number with a label that reads 'tons of trash' and another gauge that indicates very heavy pollution.

Cartoon showing an ornate office with a golden desk. The legs of the desk are kneeling prisoners, while a small statuette of a kneeling prisoner on the desk is a pen holder. A large Israeli flag stands in the corner, and through the window we see a wall with the ruins of Gaza behind it. Next to the office is a toilet, where we seen Ben Gvir taking a dump. A pipe connects the toilet with a prison cell below, where two prisoners, wearing shirts with the texts 'Free Palestine' and 'Stop genocide', are sitting in a pool of shit.

Cartoon showing a bingo game. A skeleton is spinning a giant tombola filled with balls that have symbols of skulls, missiles, fishbones etc. on them. Three balls have already been spit out by the tombola, showing skulls, missiles and rising prices. A sign shows the portraits of Trump, Putin, Xi and Netanyahu, a burning tree, skulls and a jet fighter and has the text '2026 Bingo'. People are sitting despondently at tables with bingo forms in front of them, waiting for the next ball to drop out of the tombola.

Cartoon showing a statue labeled ‘Democracy’ slowly sinking into the ground, because underground, people are digging tunnels. The tunnels connect a system of small caves, and each cave has posters on the wall with different conspiracy theories, includes George Soros, the WEF and lizard overlords. Above ground, people are standing in line to access the tunnel system.

Cartoon showing a body floating in the water belly-down, mostly submerged. The part that is not submerged is in the shape of Cuba. An arm with the colors of the US flag on it is coming down from the sky, the hand is forcing the head of the floating body underwater. Air bubbles escape from the mouth of the head.

Cartoon showing a large machine with red glowing eyes labeled 'War machine'. On one side, we see a war-torn landscape inside a glass bowl, with people pushing against the glass trying to get out. A gauge labeled 'victims' is in the red. The glass bowl is connected to the machine via a complex set of glass pipes, channeling a red fluid. On the other side of the machine, the red fluid is used an ink to draw rising graphs on rolls of paper that come out of the machine. One roll of paper is labeled 'cost of living'; people are worriedly studying this graph. The other roll of paper is labeled 'Oil and weapon industry - profit'. People in suits are sitting at a table drinking champagne and smiling while looking at this graph.

Cartoon showing carts with the UK flag on the side entering a haunted house attraction. The gateway into the ride is a giant face of Nigel Farage with a gaping open mouth.

Cartoon showing a woman pulling back a large curtain with the EU flag on it to reveal a fence with migrants standing behind it.

Cartoon showing an office worker with a head in the shape of the earth working at a desk, labeled 'Department of global issues'. On one side there is an empty tray labeled 'SOLVED'; on the other side of the desk, a tray labeled 'NOT SOLVED' is overflowing to the extent that a mountain of folders and files has formed on that side. Halfway of the mountain is a sign of a skull that reads 'Avalanche danger'. Some of the files are labeled 'Genocide', Climate crisis', 'Iran', 'Gaza' and 'war'; interspersed with the files are missiles, skulls, and leaking oil drums. In the background we see more mountains, while a dump truck is dumping even more files.

Cartoon showing a giant military boot with the flag of Israel on it. Caught between the relief in the sole are ruined buildings. People live inside the buildings and stand outside, looking up at the giant boot. A Palestinian flag hangs from one of the widows.

Onwards! Cartoon from 2022.

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