You Can with Beakman and Jax
You Can with Beakman and Jax, also known in its Spanish-language version as El Mundo de Beakman ("The World of Beakman"), is an American science and education syndicated comic strip by Jok Church, which ran from July 14, 1991 to July 17, 2016. The comic strip, and associated television series, featured facts about science and languages.
| You Can with Beakman and Jax | |
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Title logo of comic, with Beakman (left), Jax (right), their U-can, and rainbow star. | |
| Author(s) | Jok Church |
| Website | http://www.beakman.com |
| Current status/schedule | Ended |
| Launch date | July 14, 1991 |
| End date | July 17, 2016 |
| Syndicate(s) | Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick |
| Genre(s) | Science, education |
The comic strip is a text-based comic, that answers readers' questions, with illustrations of the main characters, various objects, and, or the experiments being discussed. It is run as a single panel comic that appears in newspapers as a color, or black and white Sunday feature, in either a quarter-page strip, or half-tab format. The comic has reached a readership of fifty-two million readers in thirteen countries. About 80% of the letters it receives are from females. From its comic origins, its lead character Beakman would later star in his own live action television series, Beakman's World. The comic also branched out into other media, gaining numerous awards along the way. Its author died of a heart attack on April 29, 2016, after which the comic continued for nearly three months. Jok's final remaining comic was published on July 17, 2016, just three days after the strip's 25th anniversary of publication.