I am delighted to announce that I’ll be selling my Sock Puppet City works and wares at The Maker’s Show at City Point in Brooklyn once again this year!

Starting this Friday, Dec 2, I’ll be at City Point all December, Friday-Sunday. The place to get sock puppets and their portraits!

Sock Puppet City at the Makers Show:
Fri-Sun, Dec 2-4
Fri-Sun Dec 8-10
Fri-Sun Dec 16-18
Mon-Fri Dec 19-23

I’m not saying you HAVE to buy everyone on your list a Sock Puppet Portrait, just that it’s the right thing to do. Yay!

And! Free Puppet-Making Workshops on Sundays! Sundays at 1pm at City Point

Build a Puppet Character with Marty!

Please RSVP so that I can bring enough markers and glue!

Join Marty Allen of Sock Puppet City in a fun exploration of making silly and wild bag puppets.

Nine Time continues! On the ninth of every month, May 9, 2022-Jan 9, 2023, I'm releasing a new Sock Puppet Portrait character. For NINE Months! Like a baby, but pictures of socks! Up seventh is Salbert the SCUBA DIVER! Check out his classic song!

It's the new Series 2, Volume 2, featuring six re-released characters and three brand new characters.

The newest series all come in my new packaging with all new signed back tags. And begining with Series 2, each piece will be numbered and editioned. Salbert is from an edition of 260. New characters every month!

I’m thrilled to report that my Kickstarter, RETURN of the SOCK PUPPET PORTRAITS was a huge success, coming in at 110% funded on August 18, 2021. Thank you everyone who supported and shared!

Truly, I just wanted to drop a Big Public Note of gentle reminder to any anyone who was kind enough to support my Kickstarter but hasn't yet seen their rewards. Because most of you should have gotten your stuffs! I sent a big message out in early November via Kickstarter and roped in around 10 of you glorious stragglers, and if you’re in that crew, your stuff is coming mid-November, but I always worry about the power of the combination of Spam filters and the sheer volume of information we are all subjected to. 

Anyhow, there are a few exceptions who should have heard from me personally. Otherwise, there’s a last pile of 30 or so dear souls who asked for rewards, and if you didn’t receive your stuff yet, I for some reason didn’t receive your survey (or something went wrong in the mail). No worries and please just reach out.

As has been stated, no further worries at all if you simply haven’t gotten to it, I’m happy to get you your work whenever you’d like it. And if you have no idea where this mythic survey is, please just let me know, and I can send you your link again.

I first have to fulfill the needs of all of my lovely Kickstarter backers, but I'll also be working toward listing the new characters here. And if you are from a small business that would like to carry them, please reach out immediately for wholesale pricing!

Above you can see the NINE characters I'm offering as small framed Sock Puppet Portraits in the year to come!

I can’t say enough how excited I am to be re-launching and re-branding my Sock Puppet Portraits alongside my entire brand/world, Sock Puppet City. 

The gift that keeps on giving, custom sock puppets of friends, family members, loved ones, pets, sea-faring associates, and so forth. 

Celebrate imagination and creativity with hands-on puppet-building. Awesome fun for both kids and adults and kids with their adults, this scalable workshop is perfect for: families, birthday parties, team-building exercises, or just a wonderful way to make a day or night more interesting and creative.