You Can with Beakman and Jax

You Can with Beakman and Jax
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 and had only one character named Beakman.
End date	July 17, 2016
Syndicate(s)	Universal Press Syndicate
Genre(s)	Science, education

You Can with Beakman and Jax, also known in its Spanish-language version as "El Mundo de Beakman" ("The World of Beakman"), is a science and education syndicated comic strip by Jok Church, which began on July 14, 1991.

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 1/4 page strip, or 1/2 tab format. The comic has reached a readership of 52 million readers, in 13 countries. About 80 percent 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. The comic continued for several months after its author died of a heart attack on April 29, 2016. Jok's final remaining comic was published on July 17, 2016, just two days after its 25 anniversary of publication.

The comic strip was originally named "You Can with Beakman' also called 'U Can with Beakman'. Its only main character at the time was Beakman Place, a male figure with spiky blue hair, glasses, a neck tie, and a breast pocket full of instruments. Beakman is a non-scientist that learns about the world through books, and then finds ways to prove what he's read about. He was named after Beekman Place, a small street on the east side of Manhattan, New York City. The comic is in a question-and-answer format, in which a reader asks a question, addressed to either Beakman, or also later, his sister Jax Place, a red head, with her hair curled up behind her head in blue circular bands, she wears glasses, and jacks in her hair, and as earrings. Church provides the answer, usually by means of a simple experiment the children reading can do (often with parental assistance or supervision). A paragraph after the results of the experiment, in inverted text at the bottom of the comic, would explain the answer.