Tjeerd Royaards, Dutch, is master in
Political Science and professional cartoonist. Editor-in-chief of Cartoon
Movement since 2010 and member of the Board of Advisors of Cartoonist Rights
Network International.
Twitter: @royaards
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/royaards
A project between 300 students and 125
cartoonists
"In 2010, you organized a project
where you connect 300 students between the age of 15 to 18 to 125 cartoonist
from around the world and asked the students to come up with cartoon ideas
related to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Would you tell us a little
something of the project and how that turned out?
This project revolved
around a collaboration between high school students and professional
cartoonists Around themes related to the MDGs (like hunger or poverty, or human
rights) we build a digital class room (which we call a newsroom), where we
invite students to think on a particular subject by coming up with ideas for
cartoons on this subject. Together with professional cartoonists they talk
about the ideas, and vote for the submitted sketches. The best ideas are taken
up by the cartoonists and transformed into professional cartoons. Out of all
these cartoons we selected 98 to be published in a book; this book is now used
by high schools in the Netherlands to teach students about the Millennium
Development Goals." Interview with Angelo Lopez http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2012/04/an_interview_with_cartoonist_t.html
In 2010, Tjeerd received a Citation for Excellence in
the United Nations Political Cartoon Award. Global Justice, citizenship,
capitalism and poverty are frequent issues in his cartoons.
Pure life, 2013
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