[Above, Aqua Leung gets a drink at the Village Pourhouse. Below, a great week in links]

• Your favorite cartoonists will have drawing pen in one hand, and a beer in the other at the Village Pourhouse (in New York) next Tuesday, April 15, as they support the Comic Book Legal Defense cause and ogle Paul Maybury’s new comic book Aqua Leung.
• The only way to mind somebody else’s business is by reading about it in a comic. Take a peek at the limited edition Tomine wedding tell-all.
• My hometown (Los Angeles) PBS station KCET recently interviewed Jaime Hernandez, Esther Pearl Watson, and Johnny Ryan.
• Blogger Jeet Heer gives Francois Mouly much deserved props for her work in promoting the comics medium. (via the Beat)
• Take some time to look through the gallery of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez.
• Wow. Jeopardy guy Ken Jennings might just know the answer to all your comics-related trivia. (via Flog)
• Smith magazine starts up a new comics series edited by Dean Haspiel.
• Oliver East gives is it away for free. Mini-comics, that is. (via Comics Reporter)
• An interview with Leah Hayes, who does a comic in scratchboard technique.
• NY Magazine takes you inside Josh Simmon’s Jessica Farm.
• For those who collect pictures of toys, here’s one of a giant Enid head.
• Times features Cambodian cartoonist Ing Phousera, or Séra.

-Elizabeth Chou