he illustrated a children's book, "the story of flight", for random house. the last page, which shows a man flying with a rocket pack, shows the rear of the evans family home with evans working at his drawing board in an upstairs window. in 1975, the hardcover novel "far lands, other days" contained many evans black-and-white illustrations and a painted cover. in the 1990s, factoid books (a dc offshoot) released its "big book of..." series in which evans drew some of his last comics: one a biography of baseball great ty cobb, another the story of the first air mail flight; and in 1998, the life of judge roy bean in "the big book of the weird, wild west". along with many other former ec artists and similar talents. he contributed many illustrations to at least nine of the 18 volumes of art linkletter's "picture encyclopedia for boys and girls". he was commissioned to do storyboards for the film "jaws 3-d".