You Can with Beakman and Jax

The comic first appeared in the Marin Independent Journal, and was offered to them for free. books, a Best of, and was the bases for two specialty books, ''Beakman & Jax's Bubble Book and Beakman & Jax's Microscope Book''. In 1995, an official website opened for the strip published by the "North Bay Network", it won many awards. It later moved to its current location in 1996, published by Network Solutions. Where it has received several positive reviews from such internet guides as "The parents' pocket guide to kids & computers" by Family Computer Workshop, which gave the site 5 out of 5 stars and recommended it for readers 7–13. At the time the site contained questions and answers, as well as hands-on activities, some of which required Netscape and Shockwave Player. The final strip was published on July 17, 2016, three days after its 25th anniversary and three months after Jok Church died. ==Format==

The comic strip was originally named You Can with Beakman (also called U Can with Beakman). 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. ==Concept==

The idea for doing a comic strip came to Jok while he was working for Lucasfilm, and answering questions from George Lucas's fan mail, stating that he was "overcome by the bravery children showed by asking Mr. Lucas anything at all" and he "decided to write about real questions from real kids". While working at Lucasfilm, Jok began working on a project called "Here's How" a comic strip and educational television series featuring C-3PO teaching foreign language and R2-D2 explaining the more physical world", the idea was eventually shelved, but the concept later evolved into Jok's comic strip featuring a character named Beakman. This process gained him criticism in May 1994 when he explained how to do an experiment separating hydrogen and oxygen from water, through electrolysis using a single jar and a nine-volt battery, for which he defended the comic strip, by explaining the small amount of gas that would be produced in this way would not be overly dangerous. The syndicate's managing editor claimed this to be the first time an experiment's safety was questioned. Within the comic strip Jok also introduced an annual "Beakman and Jax Make Up Your Own Rules Contest", in which the reader could report on an experiment or research they did. There were up to 100 winners from around the world, and the prizes were such things as free telescopes and copies of the Beakman & Jax books. == In other media ==

Shortly after the release of the first book June 1, 1992, on September 18, 1992{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095600/ |title=Beakman's World: Season 1, Episode 1, episode information. |publisher=Internet Movie Database ==References==