harper's" is his pet project. each of the brothers have it and he supervised him personally. by the late 1860s the support of fletcher harpring seems to have treated nast much like a son certainly beginning in the office. that support helped nast to become an independent contributor to "harper's" weekly he had an idea he just drew it and if other contributors including the planned political editor george curtis dislike deposition that was just too bad. eventually after fletcher harbert stefan 1877 nast lost the battle. he struck at nast to force him to knuckle under to whatever curtis liked. dass tried again to fight back without fletcher harbert support support -- fletcher harper support. he did succeed in building a position that allowed him to decide what he would portray and how he would portray it in but he would say about it so if he does it read with the line that the paper was as a whole than that is how it was and that independence helped to establish thim for the work that cartoonists do. of course it's not the last battle between editors and contributors but he used his celebrity to make the point that edi