While Carl Barks worked as storyman and cartoonist at the Disney Studios he only had one hobby, and that was - making cartoons! He would happily spend all of his evenings and weekends drawing cartoons in the same style that he was used to from the Calgary EyeOpener days. This attitude had cost him his first marriage with Pearl, but now he had remarried and, apparently, his new wife Clara accepted her husband's time-consuming hobby.
At the time the couple lived in various apartments within walking distance of the studios (first near Hyperion Avenue and later near Burbank), and most of Barks' cartoons had the current address drawn on either the front or the back. Strangely, he was not especially interested in signing the cartoons; many of them have no signature at all.

Undoubtedly, Barks made several hundreds of these drawings during his Disney years, but they were only occasionally sold. In fact, he kept the unsold ones under lock and key for the rest of his life, but now they are surfacing in connection with the auctioning of his estate. The sub-pages will show you a variety of the cartoons Barks made before he started his Disney duck stories.
Regrettably, most of the cartoons' durability have suffered technical problems for many reasons during the years; none of them appear 'fresh from the mill', they were drawn on different qualities and colours of paper, and the sketched ones were drawn with soft pencil strokes - both black, blue and red - that fade in time. Still, you will probably agree that all the shown cartoons fill a gap in Barks' life, and that their technical flaws can be overlooked.