Tjeerd Royaards

@tjeerdroyaards

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

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Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 1d

Volgende maand is de tweede editie van het Nederlands Journalistiek Festival in Deventer. Op zaterdag 19 september geef ik 's ochtends een workshop (helaas al volgeboekt) en doe ik mee aan een cartoonbattle tegen onder andere @mwcartoons.bsky.social en @benjaminkikkert.bsky.social. www.nljf.nl

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 2d

Sightseeing Europe. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #ClimateCrisis #Europe #tourism #ForstFires

Cartoon showing a red bus, which is a cross-over between a fire engine and a hop-on, hop-off tourist bus. Firemen are unrolling a hose from the bottom part of the bus and using it to fight a forest fire. The top of the bus is an open deck full of tourists taking pictures and selfies. On the side of the bus we see the text 'Sightseeing Europe' with stylized versions of the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and the Acropolis, all engulfed in flames, with the accompanying text 'Hotter than ever'. A guide is explaining what the firemen are doing to the tourists.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 3d

Prioriteiten. #droogte #klimaatcrisis #winst

Cartoon waarop een stomend, apocalyptisch landschap te zien is, bijna volledig verdroogd en met dode skeletten van dode vogels, vissen en insecten. In een overgebleven plasje water zijn twee vissen op stervan na dood. Door het raam van een gebouw zien we een vergaderruimte waar mensen in pak vol consternatie kijken naar presentatie die laat zien dat de droogte tot economische schade leidt, en de winst daardoor minder wordt.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 4d

Cartoon uit 2022... #droogte #KlimaatCrisis #duurzaam

Cartoon waarop een binnenvaartschip te zien is, met als vracht onderdelen voor een windmolen. Het schip heet 'Klimaatambitie', en is vastgelopen omdat de rivier door de droogte is drooggevallen.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 5d

Cover-illiustratie voor de discussienota 'Digicratie bedreigt de democratie' van de Raad voor het Openbaar Bestuur (ROB). Lees de hele discussienota hier: www.raadopenbaarbestuur.nl/documenten/2... #BigTech #digicratie #democratie

Cartoon waarop een gigantische robot gelabeld 'Digicratie' te zien is; de robot heeft vele metalen tentakels en wordt bestuurd door schimmige figuren achter glas in een cockpit. Een van de tentakels heeft een schaar aan het uiteinde en knipt een krant getiteld 'Vrije Pers' aan stukken; een andere tentakel duwt een lobbyist richting Brussel; een tentakel heeft de Tweede Kamer in zijn greep en een andere tentakel heeft een Ministerie in zijn greep. Een tentakel heeft een opening met de woord 'AI' erop aan het uiteinde waaruit vele kleine robotjes komen. Een andere tentakel heeft Vrouwe Justitia vast. De laatste twee tentakels hebben jongeren in hun greep, die dit niet door hebben of erg vinden, omdat ze allemaal gebiologeerd naar hun smartphone aan het staren zijn.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 26d

Peace through strength. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #peace #war #conflict #diplomacy

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 27d

Just finished drawing my last cartoon (I'll share it tomorrow) for the newspaper before my summer break. Tomorrow, I'm off to train around Europe. I'll be back with new cartoons in the week of August 10. See you then! Cartoon from last year. #summer #holiday #vacation

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 28d

Holiday resort for war criminals. Cartoon from 2024. #Netanyahu #Putin #Russia #Israel

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'.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· 29d

Van spotprent naar slopaganda: wanneer wordt satire misleiding? Stuk op Red Pers over politieke satire en AI waarin een aantal cartoonisten (waaronder ik) aan het woord komen: redpers.nl/van-spotpren... Ter illustratie wat van mijn cartoons over AI. #AISlop #PolitiekeCartoons

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 13

Strait of Hormuz. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #StraitofHormuz #Iran #USA #Trump

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 12

Throwback to 2013, when I made this cartoon about migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Sadly, little has changed in the past 13 years. #migrants #refugees #migration

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 11

Progress. #consumerism #world #resources

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 10

European Summer Time. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #ClimateCrisis #ForestFires #Europe #heat

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 9

Views on migration. Cartoon from 2024. #migration #populism #refugees

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'.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 8

I didn't do a cartoon about the NATO summit this year, but here are some I did last year. #NATO #Trump #Europe

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.

A cartoon shows Donald Trump at a pulpit with the NATO flag behind him. Audience members in pews offer money, while Mark Rutte collects donations in a basket. A sign reads Payeth and be saved.

Zelensky stands outside a castle wall. Inside the castle, well-dressed people gather at a NATO Summit under a NATO banner, drink champagne. A waiter is lowering a glass of champagne by a rope to Zelensky, who looks up angrily.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 7

Fast news. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #news #NewsCycle #journalism #media #AttentionSpan

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’.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 3

Summer season 2026. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl #tourism #vacation #MassTourism #environment

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 2

Summertime in Europe. Cartoon from 2024. #Europe #Ukraine #war #Russia

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jul 1

Down with FIFA. I made this cartoon for the previous World Cup (in 2022 in Qatar), but it's not like FIFA has developed a moral compass in the last four years. #FIFA #WorldCup #HumanRights

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

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 30

Zomervakantie! Cartoon van vorig jaar. #gelukszoekers #zomervakantie #zomer #migranten

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!'

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 29

Housing market (in the Netherlands). Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #HousingMarket #HousePrices #inheritance #inequality

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!'

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 28

Climate inequality. #ClimateCrisis #inequality #airco #heatwave

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 27

Profit over planet. Cartoon from 2017. #earth #greed #money #nature

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 26

Climate grill. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #heatwave #ClimateCrisis #Europe

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 25

Another heat wave cartoon from a couple of years ago. #heatwave #Europe #ClimateCrisis

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 24

Hot. Cartoon from last year. #heatwave #ClimateCrisis

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.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 23

Zowel stijgende zeepspiegel als toenemende hitte op de plekken die wel droog blijven. Deze cartoon maakte ik in 2023 over de toekomstscenarios van het KNMI.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 23

Zomer in Nederland. Cartoon uit 2019, maar hij wordt elk jaar een stukje actueler. #hittegolf #klimaatcrisis

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'.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 22

Trust in news media is declining, at a time when we need journalism the most. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #journalism #news #media #trust

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'.

Tjeerd Royaards@tjeerdroyaards· Jun 21

Peacemaker Trump. Cartoon from last year. #Trump #peace #peacemaker