Speak Softly, and Carry a Beagle

Charles M. Schulz’s Speak Softly, and Carry a Beagle is a single 1975 comic from Holt, Rinehart and Winston, collecting classic Peanuts strips centered on Snoopy’s imagined exploits as a tough-talking, beagle-brained secret agent. Written and drawn entirely by Schulz, this slim volume distills the beloved deadpan humor of his long-running newspaper strip into a focused theme. It matters as an early, playful example of the Peanuts franchise expanding into themed reprint collections, showcasing the creator’s singular voice in a compact form.