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Sounds like Animalia by Graeme Base (I think that's his name)
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. -Tim Curry
Not Animalia, because iirc Animalia has animals starting with the same letter on each page (and the lions in that book were all in a library).
There's another Graeme Base book called The Eleventh Hour
, which I distinctly recall featuring animals acting human-like. I'm not positive about any scenes like the one described, though.
Sorry to have only negative info; the Eleventh Hour only had one cat., and it doesn't have any M homages.
Damn... I just read about this one recently. Don't remember where, though.
It doesn't seem to be Graeme Base, but he's a good example of the sort of "realistic anthro" art I'm talking about. (Alan Aldridge is another, but it's not him either.)
Thanks for the suggestions. Sorry about the five year bump, but I just remembered about this.
Just remembered about it again, and it occurred to me - I realise it's a bit of an ask after nearly five years, but Fuzzy Boots, do you remember anything else from the thing you read? Pretty much anything could help at this point, I think.
Following some random searches of book catalogues, I've learned that someone called Stéphane Poulin had an art book called Bestiarie, and some of the pictures that are on the net look a bit like the kind of thing I remember, although nothing that makes me think "Yes! That was it!"
So, two long-shot questions:
1) Does anyone know if the book had pictures like the ones I describe?
2) Does anyone know if the book was translated into English, because the one I saw wasn't in French?
A book of paintings, mostly (or entirely) of anthropomorphic (but not cartoony) animals. Probably mid-90s. The picture that sticks in my mind is a scene from the film M with the characters as cats. The killer has four mouse-tails sticking out of his pocket, forming an "M" to match the one chalked on his coat.
Also, I think there was one of a lion and an elephant on a see-saw?
Edited by DaibhidC