Tjeerd Royaards

Editorial cartoonist for Dutch newspaper Trouw and international media. Also run Cartoon Movement. Cartoons in English and Dutch.

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website: http://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/

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Last Notes

2026-04-04 08:39:54 CEST

Almost Easter. Here’s the cartoon I did last year to mark the occasion.
#Easter #EasterEgg #war #conflicts #humanity
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2026-04-03 10:17:13 CEST

Middle Easter Bunny. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Easter
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2026-04-01 08:32:10 CEST

Theme park earth. Cartoon from 2024 (and still as relevant as ever...)
#Ukraine #Iran #migrants #climate
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2026-03-30 08:24:13 CEST

Château Big Tech. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#BigTech #data #DataHarvesting #SocialMedia #Meta
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2026-03-29 13:41:04 CEST

Some of my favorite recent cartoons from @npub1vq8…jyph, by Burkhard Mohr, Amine Labter, Scot Ritchie and Humberto Aguirre. For more cartoons, check out the platform or subscribe to our daily cartoon newsletter: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
#PoliticalCartoons #CartoonMovement
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2026-03-27 08:36:50 CET

MAGA radio. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Trump #MAGA #liar #PostTruth
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2026-03-24 14:11:07 CET

I’m in Belgium on a work-related trip; first time I had the chance to pick up a printed copy of Belgian newspaper De Morgen since I started working for them.
I know print is dying, but seeing your cartoons in ink on actual paper is still something special :)
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2026-03-23 08:54:30 CET

The oil-you-can-eat buffet is currently unavailable. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#oil #sustainability #WorldEconomy #Hormuz #Iran
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2026-03-21 09:03:36 CET

Overdose. Cartoon from last year. It's a sad fact that any cartoon about war, death and destruction can be used again and again and again...
#war #violence #humanity #earth
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2026-03-19 13:40:18 CET

Sharing some of my favorite cartoons published on Cartoon Movement this week, by Andy Bunday, Emad Hajjaj, Z and Farid Huseynli.
More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
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2026-03-16 08:49:12 CET

Would you leave your child with these men? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#WorldLeaders #dictators #Netanyahu #Trump #Putin #XiJinping
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2026-03-15 14:21:54 CET

Popular and forgotten conflicts. Cartoon from last year.
#Israel #Iran #Ukraine #Sudan
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2026-03-13 08:20:14 CET

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran
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2026-03-11 08:42:55 CET

Some of my favorite cartoons from @npub1vq8…jyph this week, by Luc Vernimmen, Naser Jafari, Milko Dalla Battista and Alaa Allagto. For a lot more cartoons, head over to https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
#CartoonMovement #PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire
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2026-03-10 09:36:58 CET

Cartooning for Peace heeft een nieuw rapport gepubliceerd: 'Under Pressure' kijkt naar dreiging voor cartoonisten wereldwijd tussen 2023 en 2025. Gisteravond vertelde ik bij Met het Oog op Morgen over hoe het is gesteld met de positie van politiek cartoonisten: https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nos-met-het-oog-op-morgen/019cd646-592a-7272-b6a3-8d1636292d17/2026-03-10-cartoonisten-onder-druk
Het rapport is hier (gratis) te downloaden: https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/evenements/sous-pression-rapport-sur-la-situation-des-dessinateurs-de-presse-menaces-dans-le-monde-2023-2025/
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2026-03-09 09:52:45 CET

Trickle-down society. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#economy #TrickleDown #inequality #poverty
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2026-03-08 13:24:10 CET

The state of international law.
#InternationalLaw #WorldOrder
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2026-03-07 09:30:44 CET

Red lines. Cartoon from last year, relevant as ever (I wish it weren't).
#WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #refugees #RedLines
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2026-03-06 09:59:10 CET

Dogs of war. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Iran #MiddleEast #escalation #Trump #Netanyahu
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2026-03-05 14:35:33 CET

Looking forward to the International Journalism Festival in Italy, next month! I’ll be hosting not one, but two workshops this time!
One session is titled The importance of humour for democracy: good humour vs bad humour: https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2026/the-importance-of-humor-for-democracy-good-humor-vs-bad-humour
The other one is a hands-on workshop to make your own political cartoon (for which you can earn our coveted 'I cartooned today'-button: https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2026/the-power-of-editorial-cartoons-4
If you're in Perugia next month, come say hi!
#IJF26
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2026-03-04 16:59:28 CET

Some of my favorite cartoons from @npub1vq8…jyph this week, by Andrew Winters, Emad Hajjaj, Oleksiy Kustovsky and James Mellor.
More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
#PoliticalCartoons #Iran #Trump
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2026-03-02 07:58:01 CET

The peace president. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Trump #Iran #BoardOfPeace #FifaPeacePrize
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2026-02-28 16:53:54 CET

Trump versus Khamenei. Cartoon from 2020.
#Iran #USA #Trump #Khamenei
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2026-02-20 10:09:44 CET

West Bank annexation. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Israel #WestBank #annexation #InternationalLaw
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2026-02-19 15:30:20 CET

Man versus nature.
#profit #greed #money #nature
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2026-02-17 12:57:27 CET

Less screens, more books. Cartoon from last year.
#reading #books #ScreenTime
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2026-02-16 10:02:44 CET

The challenges of healthy living. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#health #lifestyle #FastFood #healthy
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2026-02-15 14:34:20 CET

Beware of false nostalgia.
#populism #authoritarianism #fascism #history
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2026-02-14 11:34:29 CET

Happy Valentine's Day, earth! Cartoon from last year.
#Valentime #ValentinesDay #love #humanity
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2026-02-13 08:30:23 CET

If 2026 were a shopping mall, it would probably look like this. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#fascism #racism #manosphere #tradwives #democracy
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2026-02-12 10:26:31 CET

The EU and Norway's rhetoric of "open access" to pathogen data masks a system of biopiracy that preys on the Global South's resources.
Behind closed doors, intellectual property monopolies are built on shared pathogen resources to generate profits for their Big Pharma corporations.
Cartoon commissioned by Feminists for a People's Vaccine.
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2026-02-11 10:31:48 CET

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @npub1vq8…jyph this week, by Matthew Fuller, Deb Milbrath, Gatis Sluka and Franco Juri.
More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement
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2026-02-10 11:34:33 CET

First published yesterday in Dutch newspaper Trouw, and today both on the front page of Le Monde and on the back page of Belgian newspaper De Morgen.
I think this is the first time one of my cartoons made it into three national newspapers 🤩
#WinterOlympics #Olympics #PoliticalCartoon
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2026-02-09 08:44:46 CET

Winter Olympics of the future. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#WinterOlympics #Olympics #climate #sustainability
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2026-02-08 16:29:14 CET

European solidarity.
#Ukraine #Europe #winter #solidarity #StandWithUkraine
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2026-02-07 09:29:44 CET

Amazon. Cartoon from 2024.
#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #Amazon
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2026-02-06 10:14:18 CET

Epstein files. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Trump
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2026-02-04 16:21:23 CET

Published today on the front page of Le Monde!
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/02/04/vu-par-tjeerd-royaards_6665324_3232.html
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2026-02-03 12:31:31 CET

Rat race. Cartoon I made for Dutch newspaper Trouw a while back, published today in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/
#RatRace #therapy #efficiency
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2026-02-02 08:40:24 CET

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
More of my work for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI
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2026-01-30 09:41:21 CET

European autonomy. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Europe #USA #BigTech #autonomy #independence
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2026-01-27 15:08:07 CET

A brief history of humanity. Cartoon from 2024.
#war #peace #humans #destruction #reconstruction
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2026-01-26 08:02:39 CET

ICE shoots another domestic terrorist. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#ICE #USA #America #Trump
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2026-01-25 13:37:58 CET

I think this cartoon from 2018 is one of the best Trump cartoons I've done, visualizing hate speech and xenophobia without the need for words.
#Trump #ICE #migrants
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2026-01-23 08:00:18 CET

Prioriteiten. Cartoon voor Trouw. Meer cartoons voor Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#klimaat #duurzaamheid #defensie #wapens
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2026-01-22 14:36:55 CET

The immediate Greenland crisis seems averted, but which button will Lil' Dictator push next?
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #UN #Europe
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2026-01-19 08:23:10 CET

Ready to take on Trumpzilla? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Trump #Trumpzilla #Europe
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2026-01-18 14:51:12 CET

A year of Trump. Cartoon from 2025.
#Trump #tariffs #deal #NoDeal
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2026-01-17 08:53:25 CET

Emperor Trump. Cartoon from 2024 (and even more true today).
#Trump #democracy #justice
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2026-01-16 08:10:42 CET

Free Iran! Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#FreeIran #Iran #Khamenei #protests
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2026-01-14 16:15:21 CET

(Still) fighting oppression. Cartoon from 2022.
#Iran #Ukraine #Putin #Khamenei
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2026-01-13 09:36:07 CET

Wheel of misfortune. Cartoon for Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/
#Trump #Europe #NATO #future
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2026-01-12 08:25:02 CET

Welcome to the VladXiDonocracy. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Trump #Putin #XiJinping #HumanRights #democracy
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2026-01-11 14:39:58 CET

Job and wealth creation. Cartoon from last year.
#capitalism #economy #greed #nature
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2026-01-10 11:44:26 CET

America's engine. Cartoon from one year ago.
#Trump #lies #democracy
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2026-01-09 08:14:59 CET

RIP human(-made) creativity? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
Note: this cartoon was made without any use of AI.
#AI #creativity #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech
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2026-01-08 16:27:03 CET

Protests in Iran. Cartoon from 2022 (let's hope something really changes this time around). Originally published in Dutch newspaper Trouw, also published this week in French magazine Courrier International
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2026-01-07 14:16:03 CET

It probably should also include Xi Jinping, but this cartoon from last year seems very relevant again.
#Trump #Putin #WorldOrder
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2026-01-05 08:16:51 CET

Where to next? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #oil #Greenland
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2026-01-04 12:05:56 CET

My cartoon ‘Playground’ was selected as Cartoon of the Year by the staff from toonpool.com✨
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2026-01-03 19:09:04 CET

I’ll give this a repost. Cartoon from last month.
#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela
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2025-12-23 10:24:18 CET

The holiday season: a time to share, a time of goodwill and a time to deport migrants...
This is my final cartoon of the year; happy holidays see you all in 2026!
#Xmas #Christmas #deportation #migrants #ICE
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2025-12-22 08:19:06 CET

Getting into the Christmas spirit. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Christmas #Xmas #Ukraine #Sudan #PeaceOnEarth
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2025-12-19 09:41:24 CET

New year, new digs. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#Putin #Trump #HappyNewYear
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2025-12-18 13:31:18 CET

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2025-12-18 13:30:38 CET

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2025-12-18 13:29:39 CET

It’s that time of the year again! Here is my personal top 10 of international cartoons (I’ll post a Dutch top 10 soon) I did in 2025, selected from the roughly 150 I did in total.
Thanks for all your support, hope you’ll continue to enjoy my work next year as well. If you’d like to get my cartoons directly by email, you can subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/
#Top10 #BestOf2025 #politicalcartoons
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2025-12-16 12:40:10 CET

For @npub1vq8…jyph , I make a top 10 of the best cartoons each year. Not an easy task, given that 11,793 cartoons were submitted to the platform in 2025. But, although subjective and somewhat arbitrary, I think I've put together a nice overview of the year with some great cartoons.
Go check it out here: https://cartoonmovement.substack.com/p/the-best-cartoons-of-the-year
#top10 #BestCartoons #BestOf2025
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2025-12-15 09:51:26 CET

How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#democracy #dictators #leadership
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2025-12-13 10:12:23 CET

This was a great week!
I had dinner with a bunch of fun Dutch and international cartoonists, including fellow European Cartoon Award finalists Zehra Ömeroğlu and Emad Hajjaj (Abu mahjoob).
I did a podcast with fellow cartoonists Jip van den Toorn and Hajo de Reijger talking about our profession with the great Stine Jensen (I'll share the link later today for Dutch speakers).
And yesterday, during Cartoons Day 2025, I found out I've won the European Cartoon Award 2025!
#EuropeanCartoonAward
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2025-12-12 09:34:21 CET

Trying to stay sane in today’s world. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#MentalHealth #sanity #society #future
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2025-12-11 17:28:57 CET

Two Europes. Cartoon from 2022.
#migrants #Europe #HumanRights
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2025-12-10 12:59:39 CET

War economy. Cartoon from one year ago.
#weapons #business #profit #poverty #hunger
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2025-12-09 13:32:09 CET

Modern capitalism. Cartoon from 2024.
#inequality #economy #capitalism #poverty
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2025-12-08 09:52:39 CET

Non-stop shit show. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Trump #ShitShow #FloodingTheZone
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2025-12-07 16:28:29 CET

Europe in danger?
#MAGA #Europe #EuropeanUnion #populism
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2025-12-05 09:08:07 CET

Business is booming. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#weapons #InternationalLaw #war #business
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2025-12-04 17:21:26 CET

Wow! I am one of the 3 finalists for the European Cartoon Award 2025! The winner will be announced on December 12 in The Hague during Cartoons Day (it's a free event, you can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-eca-25-cartoons-day-award-ceremony-1399790915309?aff=oddtdtcreator
Congrats to fellow finalists Zehra Ömeroğlu and Emad Hajjaj!
#EuropeanCartoonAward
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2025-12-03 14:09:29 CET

Recent publications in French magazine Courrier International, both cartoons are about Africa and both are from 2023.
#Africa #resources #climate #environment
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2025-12-02 13:57:58 CET

Putin the Great. Cartoon from 2022.
#Putin #Ukraine #Russia
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2025-12-01 09:25:54 CET

Trump versus Venezuela. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Venezuela #Trump #oil #Maduro
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2025-11-30 13:48:39 CET

The last area on earth without plastic pollution. Cartoon from 2024.
#nature #plastic #trash #waste #garbage
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2025-11-29 10:10:52 CET

Although I did not get to speak with students in Slovakia (you can read more about that here: https://cartoonmovement.substack.com/p/how-space-for-political-satire-is), I did get to speak with a lot of young Dutch people recently about the role and importance of political cartoons. Here are some photos from a recent workshops in Rotterdam and The Hague.
(Photos - except for the last one - Anne Reitsma Fotografie)
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2025-11-28 09:25:58 CET

Black Friday. Cartoon for Trouw.
#BlackFriday #consumerism #exploitation #sweatshops
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2025-11-27 20:56:00 CET

Tomorrow is Black Friday. Here's the cartoon I did last year. I'll share a new one tomorrow (with a similar point, but a new visual :)
#BlackFriday #climatecrisis #consumerism
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2025-11-26 13:04:49 CET

I haven't found the time (yet) to do a Putin-Trump cartoon about the new 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, but I'm also having a hard time finding a new angle or joke to make about it. So here are some oldies.
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2025-11-25 10:14:03 CET

The shrinking space for political satire in Europe. For Cartoon Movement, I wrote an editorial about my trip to Slovakia, censorship by the Fico government (we weren't allowed to visit a high school to talk about cartoons with students) and the lack of diplomatic courage of the Dutch embassy.
Read it here: https://cartoonmovement.substack.com/p/how-space-for-political-satire-is
#Slovakia #politicalcartoons #censorship
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2025-11-24 10:02:07 CET

Distracted. Cartoon for Trouw.
#COP30 #climatecrisis #future #humanity
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2025-11-21 07:42:59 CET

Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Cartoon for Trouw.
#Trump #PeacePlan #UnitedNations
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2025-11-19 14:53:42 CET

The great insect die-off. Cartoon from 2019.
#insects #ecology #extinction #life
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2025-11-16 14:26:20 CET

COP30.
#COP30 #climate #globaleconomy #environment #NoPlanetB
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2025-11-14 08:48:55 CET

Sustainable capitalism. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#capitalism #sustainability #COP30
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2025-11-12 14:26:24 CET

Business model. Cartoon from early this year.
#socialmedia #profit #greed #Meta #Twitter
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2025-11-11 09:28:40 CET

Where we are headed under current management.
#COP30 #Trump #climatecrisis
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2025-11-10 10:00:09 CET

Progress. Cartoon for Dutch daily newspaper Trouw:
https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#nature #urbanization #future #progress
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2025-11-09 13:27:38 CET

Another super-hurricane is about to hit the Philippines. I've been doing one hurricane cartoon almost every year and the point of all of them is basically the same. These are from 2024, 2022, 2020 and 2019.
#climatecrisis #hurricane #extremeweather
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2025-11-08 09:12:46 CET

Proud and happy to be among the 15 nominees shortlisted for this year's European Cartoon Award!
If you have an affinity with political cartoons (and you're in the area), come to Cartoons Day in The Hague on 12 December. There will be workshops, panels & more + you get to hang out with cartoonists. And it's free: https://europeancartoonaward.com/2025/10/02/the-eca-cartoons-day-2025/
#EuropeanCartoonAward
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2025-11-07 08:56:57 CET

Left turn. Cartoon for Trouw.
#ZohranMamdani #NYC #Trump
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2025-11-06 13:56:49 CET

Found this in my cartoon archive, made during the previous shutdown of the US government in 2019.
#USgovernment #shutdown #Trump
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2025-11-05 09:55:23 CET

Loonkloof. Cartoon uit 2023.
#loonkloof #ongelijkheid
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