Carl Barks' professional life involved a lot more than his official comic book work and his paintings. Hardly a day went by without fans writing to him requesting sketches and drawings, and he frequently received mail from official institutions asking him to either attend a gathering or 'at least' produce some material for them.
Barks was a kind man who would have loved to oblige, but the 24 hours in a day set a natural restriction to any good intentions. Nevertheless, he would sometimes abide with the wishes of a fan or an official organization and sit down at his drawing board. Mostly without being paid.
These pages will show you a small sampling of the many unique drawings Barks made during the years. They were all intended for either a few persons or for events that would soon after be forgotten. But they all deserve a better fate than that. So here are some of them...

The drawings are divided into decades of origin, but there is no specific chronology within the pages because the exact dates of Barks' responses are not always known.