Talk:Mistick Krewe of Comus

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I am reverting todays edit by anon User:68.210.36.221, though not without reluctance. Much, perhaps 2/3rds, looks like positive additions, but it is couched very much in the Comus POV with some snide cracks at various other organizations, politicians and points of view. I encourage the anon editor to look over Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and if possible rewrite more in those lines (note that the previous edits can be found in article history). If neither they nor anyone else does so, I will try to merge much of the historically descriptive material back into the article. I know it's nearly impossible to find people in New Orleans who can frame a sentence refering to the disputes between the old line crews and councilwoman Taylor without resorting to editorializing adjectives, but Wikipedia's goal is a straightforward description. -- Infrogmation 05:38, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Mistick Krewe of Comus

It's "Mistick" not "Mystick."

Sources -- R. Tallant, "Mardi Gras" (Pelican, 1976) at page 115. See also, H. Schindler, "Mardi Gras Treasures" (Pelican, 2000) passim. There are thousands of other sources.

To be 100% accurate, the article should be renamed to correct the spelling, but I don't know how to do that.

Moved per sited reccomendation. -- Infrogmation 02:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Early History

ARGH! I thought I had the footnotes figured out, after looking at the Wiki-edit pages. Can a veteran look at the HTML code and tell me what I did wrong?

Links between Pickwick Club & MKC

There is no reference for the suggestion that all Pickwick members belong to MKC. This is not surprising, since it isn't accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.42.239 (talk) 05:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Wrong. You should probably read club history books. Robtin.Goodfellow (talk) 00:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Attn

Thanks for your interest and work improving articles! However you have repeatedly uploaded files to Commons not fitting within guidelines, which were therefore deleted. See you talk page on Commons: If you have questions you can't find the answer to, ask! Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 01:36, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

When was the latest parade?

Can somebody find out when the final parade was held and insert it into the article. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 21:12, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I checked newspapers.com just now and found it never returned to parading, it having dropped out effective 2000. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Endless lies!

"The Comus organization (along with Momus and Proteus, other 19th-century Krewes) withdrew from parading rather than racially integrating."

This is a blatant, propagandistic falsehood. The krewes withdrew explicitly because it was being demanded that they forgo their vows of secrecy. The city council had demanded access to their membership rolls. 76.27.182.222 (talk) 08:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

LOL, is that how they're trying to spin it now? -- Infrogmation (talk) 04:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

No, that's what Comus has always maintained. The thing is, for all anybody knows, Comus has black members, but it's a true secret society and they've always taken that part really seriously, however odd it might seem. There's a really good book on the subject, The Lords of Misrule, by the late great Louisiana political columnist James Gill, which also serves as a really good brief history of Carnival/Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the racial politics associated with it. I second the original comment, just on a strictly factual basis. Comus, Momus, and Proteus never refused to integrate (at the very least that assertion is just screaming for a citation). They refused to make their membership rolls available to the city council, that's all anybody actually knows. Of course it might have been motivated by racism, but absent any statement from Comus or access to its membership rolls, that remains in the realm of speculation. My hunch is that Comus has black members, if only as a cover-your-a** tactic, but this too is of course only speculation. Mpaniello (talk) 03:11, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Confusion

The lead states, "...is the oldest extant New Orleans, Louisiana Carnival Krewe...", with emphasis on "is". The last entry in the "Parade" section is 1992, with no parade. The "Withdrawal from parading" section states, "The Krewe of Comus never resumed its parading". Whether a parent organization still exists is debatable, but to me, the article is unclear whether the krewe still exists. -- Otr500 (talk) 19:24, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

The Krewe of Comus very much still exists and still has a presence during Carnival; in fact the Comus ball is the absolute highlight of the social season, the most coveted and hardest-to-get ticket in the city, even more so than Rex, Momus, Proteus, or any other old-line krewe. They broadcast the Comus and Rex balls every Mardi Gras on the local PBS station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHljI5JbnTM Mpaniello (talk) 19:31, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, so some updating might help? -- Otr500 (talk) 05:24, 26 April 2026 (UTC)