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Please note that our shop will not be processing any orders between 1/16/26-2/09/26. All orders placed before then are good to go. Feel free to browse and even order, but don't mind getting an email from us that you'll have to wait.

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It’s The Spooky Trio of Sock Puppet Portraits! Terror awaits! Fulfill your ultimate spooky desires and bring home our three new sock puppet portraits just in time for the Halloween season. 

Featuring Dr. Vampire, Big Tony Imhotep, and world premiere of Sock Puppet Babadook. Collect them all, on sale as a trio for a limited time!

https://www.sockpuppetcity.com/collections/sock-puppet-portraits/products/spooky-trio-sock-puppet-portraits-sale

The perfect addition to a tabletop spooky display!

Released for Halloween 2025, The Babadook is brand new limited edition, based on the spooky film of the same name. Dr. Vampire and Big Tony Imhotep are re-releases who were originally available as characters from our Sock Puppet Soap Opera, Sock Puppet Manor, but have been unavailable for a decade. Spooky but true!  They are now available with a new frame-style and ID tag. 

I added a new home to learn about the sock puppets that is separate from the store!

This is exclusively for all the REAL sock puppets I now offer.

DAH NAH! Here comes my first new portrait in a too long! Shark Summer ain’t over, let’s hold on to it before it bites us! Ed the Shark is here!

Ed is a Shark who just wants to find a friend. Alas, whenever he gets close, he pushes people away. Or eats them.

He copes by using puns, chums.

Ed is featured in a Tik Tok video that went a little viral, see for yourself!

We’re so excited to announce a limited first edition Pizza the Puppet Sock Puppet for sale!

Pizza the Puppet is a hand-made sock puppet, and I’m initially only making 20. I need to both see how he does and figure out the process. For this first limited run we made a ridiculous specialty box!

Sock Puppet Dance! Sock Puppet City’s first OFFICIAL COLLECTION celebrates their arrival with a dance party! https://youtu.be/ddHvsYhhSXk

AND! Our sale is extended to April 13! Wow! Who is YOUR favorite?!?

This video was a really fun way for me to stretch out my creative muscle juice. I love playing with rhythm, color, and editing, and transforming a space with puppets. And we’re getting to know the first official crew while we’re at it.

I like to imagine it's a kind of dance battle to take over the screen itself, where everyone is the winner.

Bonus:  an original song by me Marty. 

Watch! Enjoy! Dance along!

Welcome to our first edition of: Confessions of a Puppet Person! Sign up for our newsletter so that you don't miss future editions!

I get this question a lot: “Why sock puppets?”

I often answer something to the effect of: “Well, I was sleepwalking behind a haunted house when I tripped and fell into an old washing machine. When I woke up, I was in a WHOLE OTHER WORLD. There, I met, befriended, and started a small business with a wild-eyed wizard who was also a well-dressed troll who was also a sock salesman. The rest is history!”

see the REAL REASON story at martystuff...

Sock Puppet City is the storefront for all of artist Marty Allen's sock puppet sales.

You can learn more about Marty's sock puppets as a body of art as well as lots of Marty's other related work as an artist, writer, musician, and creative producer and get the latest updates at Martystuff (and/or by following Martystuff on Instagram).

All of Marty's art is interwoven in a big world of stories, dive deep (if you dare).

Welcome to Theodore Thursdays! Are you ready to get awesome?

Beginning September 7, 2023, I’m releasing one new chapter of the first novel in my book series Theodore & the 7 Layers of Space. Book 1 is called Brick & Bird. Check out the cover! YES THE SOCK PUPPET PORTRAITS ARE IN IT! ALONG WITH ALL OF MY ART!?!

There are two ways you can access my book. The first is via a free app for phones or desktop called Wattpad where the community is awesome, my illustrations are supported and it’s free for you to access and enjoy! 

https://www.wattpad.com/1322091403-theodore-the-7-layers-of-space-book-1-brick-bird

The second is via my new Patreon, where you can directly support me as an artist and storyteller while getting yourself access to an ad free copy of the book, and get exclusive behind the scenes videos, songs, discounted merch and more awesomeness!

http://patreon.com/martystuff

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.