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In the Yiddish language, a nebbish is a person whose life is dictated by the simple proposition: "If it can go wrong, it will go wrong, and it will happen to me." These clever, humorous illustrations perfectly describe those secret moments in all our lives when we wished that the earth would open up and swallow us, whole.

Allen Unger first discovered that he could draw at around the age of five, although Sioux Indians and Roman soldiers featured obsessively in these drawings. With such people in short supply as models in London's East End (where Allen grew up), he began to utilize local models who became the source upon which he built his acknowledged expertise in the growing field of Nebbish Artwork.