The Best of Our Mardi Gras Coverage
Mobile Mask covers more than 50 Mardi Gras parades and events every year. We shoot thousands of photos - nowadays it's a lot more than 10,000 every Carnival season. From that, we post more than 2,000 photos every year.
From all of that, we choose between 100 and 200 Best Of photos every year.
We also shoot HD video of most of the parades and post them on our YouTube channel. Over the last several years, we have made Best Of videos.
To see the Best Of 2024, click HERE.
If you'd like to view our Best Of photos or videos from 2023 to 2012, just click HERE.
2025 Cover Reveal!
Here's the cover of the 2025 issue of Mobile Mask magazine - our 13th ever - which will officially go on sale January 6.
The cover art, an oversized mask, was created especially for Mobile Mask by Nat Johnson.
Nat is deeply involved in Mardi Gras art. She works with Craig Stephens's Carnival Artists, making some of the huge figures you see at the front of floats. She also makes masks, huge puppets, big heads, all kinds of three-dimensional art.
And two-dimensional. She's the one behind those songbird silhouettes you may have heard or read about.
She named this mask "Folly and Death," a perfect reference to those symbols of the Order of Myths, which have become synonymous with Mobile Mardi Gras
Inside the magazine, you'll find stories about the Mystic Stripers Society and the amazing way that organization started; the three burials of Joe Cain and his wife; the "Spirit" of BC Rain High School; and, of course, artist Lucy Gafford.
Plus all of the schedules, maps, and information you'll need to plan your Mardi Gras season in south Alabama!
Now that Mardi Gras 2024 is over, can you still get a copy?
Yes, but only at a handful of area stores.
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Our Coverage of Mardi Gras
Mobile Mask covers as many area Mardi Gras parades and events as we can. When we say "cover," we mean photograph or video or both and sometimes write little stories.
We will, for example, cover nearly every downtown Mobile parade. But it's tough for us to be in two places at once, so we do miss some events.
Click on "Parading Groups" in the column on the left, then click on the group you're interested in, and you'll land on our page for that group. There you'll find links to the latest photos and videos, once they've been posted.
And check the Mobile Mask Facebook page. Usually when we cover kids parades, for example, we post an album of photos there.
We'll be working hard to get all of our coverage up on the site, and Mobile Mask is the only place where you can see virtually the entire parade with photos or video.
We will absolutely hit a point where we fall behind in the posting, and then we'll hit a point where we'll no longer be posting because we'll be out on the parade route nearly every waking hour.
But never fear. We always catch up. Eventually.
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