I knew reporter/journalist/news anchor Jake Tapper had inspired to be a cartoonist, I wasn’t aware that he was once a cartoonist for Roll Call. That aside, the paper asked him to provide a cartoon for their 60th anniversary, which he did (see below).
I think Jake might be a candidate for the National Cartoonists Society’s ACE Award given to a “celebrity or notable who aspired at one time to become a cartoonist, but whose path led them to an entirely different career.” The last person to win this award was Weird Al Yankovich.
Tapper’s also drawing cartoons for the final segment of his new weekly Sunday morning political show on CNN.
I am inspired to remind you the word ASPIRED is the correct word…
as·pire
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verb
past tense: aspired;
past participle: aspired
direct one’s hopes or ambitions toward achieving something.
“we never thought that we might aspire to those heights”
synonyms: desire, hope for, dream of, long for, yearn for, set one’s heart on, wish for, want, be desirous of;