More Fun with Unexpected Covers

Following on the heels of classic literature with comics covers is more proof that comics seem to capture the zeitgeist of our times. (Of course, that also means that they won't capture the zeitgeist of next year, so we'll all be sitting around wondering, "What happened?") Heidi points us to Deutsche Grammophon's new Classical Bytes series. Introductions to Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and more have been packaged with covers by Richard Sala, Jim Woodring, Gary Panter, Michael Kupperman, James Sturm, and many others. I'm just going off the top of my head, but I don't believe there's any overlap with the artists from Penguin Classics. Here's Peter Bagge's cover (you'll have to guess the composer yourself).