<![CDATA[Tjeerd Royaards]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FIe5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2d4bc0a-6f29-46fa-ad26-ec3cb0e7ebe7_1280x1280.pngTjeerd Royaardshttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.comSubstackTue, 30 Jun 2026 12:50:13 GMT<![CDATA[Housing market]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/housing-markethttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/housing-marketMon, 29 Jun 2026 07:46:31 GMT

Inequality in the housing market. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Climate inequality]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-inequalityhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-inequalitySun, 28 Jun 2026 12:52:19 GMT
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.

How rich and poor deal with the climate crisis.

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]]><![CDATA[Climate grill]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-grillhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-grillFri, 26 Jun 2026 06:04:41 GMT
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.

Heat wave in Europe, the new summer normal. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Trust in news media declining]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/trust-in-news-media-declininghttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/trust-in-news-media-decliningMon, 22 Jun 2026 08:07:26 GMT
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'.

Trust in news media is declining, at a time when we need journalism the most. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Summer in Europe]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/summer-in-europehttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/summer-in-europeFri, 19 Jun 2026 08:36:49 GMT
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.

European summer of apartheid. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Making profit]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/making-profithttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/making-profitThu, 18 Jun 2026 13:45:36 GMT
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.

…at the expense of working conditions and human rights.

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]]><![CDATA[Parasite]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/parasitehttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/parasiteMon, 15 Jun 2026 07:23:22 GMT
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 for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Museum of human ingenuity]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/museum-of-human-ingenuityhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/museum-of-human-ingenuityFri, 12 Jun 2026 07:19:54 GMT
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 for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Toxisch nationalisme]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/toxisch-nationalismehttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/toxisch-nationalismeMon, 08 Jun 2026 06:47:04 GMT
Cartoon waarop anti-immigratie demonstranten te zien zijn die door de straat lopen. Een van de demonstranten draagt een Nederlandse vlag als mantel, een andere draagt een vlag met het logo van Forum voor Democratie. De voorste demonstrant draagt een grote prinsenvlag. De prinsenvlag waait de hoek van de straat om en aan het uiteinde van de vlag hebben zich slierten in de vorm van gifslangen gevormd, die een moeder en kind van kleur bedreigen.

Cartoon voor Trouw.

]]><![CDATA[Climate crisis]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-crisishttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/climate-crisisSat, 06 Jun 2026 06:12:26 GMTFor World Environment Day, Cartooning for Peace, Européens Sans Frontières and Greentervention used one of my cartoons to create a short animation as part of a campaign to raise environmental awareness.

You can see the animation here:

And here is the original cartoon the animation is based on:

]]><![CDATA[FIFA World Cup 2026]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/fifa-world-cup-2026https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/fifa-world-cup-2026Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:17:49 GMT
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 for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Russian war machine]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/russian-war-machinehttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/russian-war-machineWed, 03 Jun 2026 06:52:37 GMT
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.

Putin's war is not only wreaking havoc on Ukraine.

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]]><![CDATA[Ceasefire matches]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/ceasefire-matcheshttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/ceasefire-matchesMon, 01 Jun 2026 07:06:34 GMT
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.

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[Fietspad]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/fietspadhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/fietspadFri, 29 May 2026 07:27:03 GMT
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 voor Trouw.

]]><![CDATA[Ben-Gvir's office]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/ben-gvirs-officehttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/ben-gvirs-officeSat, 23 May 2026 06:28:10 GMT
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.

Itamar Ben-Gvir.

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]]><![CDATA[Gastvrij land]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/gastvrij-landhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/gastvrij-landFri, 22 May 2026 06:34:53 GMT
Cartoon waarop een leeg en uitgestrekt polderlandschap te zien is. In de lege weilanden staan borden met de teksten 'Nederland is vol', 'VOL' en 'Hier geen noodopvang'. In de voorgrond loopt een weg; in de berm staat een lange rij asielzoekers. Een bord heeft de tekst: 'Opvang - wachttijd vanaf dit punt:' Een digitale display laat zien dat de huidige wachttijd 13 weken en 4 dagen bedraagt.

Cartoon voor Trouw.

]]><![CDATA[2026 bingo]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/2026-bingohttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/2026-bingoWed, 20 May 2026 12:58:03 GMT
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.

What a fun year it's been so far, I can't wait to see what's still in store.

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]]><![CDATA[Welcome to the post-truth society]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/welcome-to-the-post-truth-societyhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/welcome-to-the-post-truth-societyMon, 18 May 2026 06:51:08 GMT
Cartoon showing the inside of a fast food restaurant with lots of people waiting for food. The logo on the counter reads 'AI slop'. People are ordering from large screens that have the logo of a hamburger on it and the text 'Generate your truth'. Behind the counter two robots are filling buns with brown slop that comes from a large pipe overhead. Two other robots are handing out finished orders. To the side a small fruit & salad bar is ignored by everyone; it has the logo of an apple with the text: 'Facts: nutritious & healthy'.

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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]]><![CDATA[US blockade of Cuba]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/us-blockade-of-cubahttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/us-blockade-of-cubaSat, 16 May 2026 06:44:33 GMT
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.

Starving the people to bring the regime to its knees.

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]]><![CDATA[Bezorgde burger]]>https://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/bezorgde-burgerhttps://www.tjeerdroyaards.com/p/bezorgde-burgerFri, 15 May 2026 07:40:55 GMT

Cartoon voor Trouw.

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