What's funny about gay marriage?(the Buzz)(newspaper comic strips address gay marriage issue)(Brief Article)

GAY MATERIAL in newspaper comic strips is about as rare as an episode of The O.C featuring an actual teenager. But what was once solely the occasional realm of "Doonesbury" and "For Better or for Worse" has branched out to other comics as the gay marriage issue sweeps the land.

As the cat in "Get Fuzzy" tried to get a constitutional amendment banning ferrets and Wiley Miller's "Non Sequitur" joked about, "activist judges," three minority-created comic strips tackled the issue head-on. "La Cucaracha" imagined a marriage announcement between Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia, while "Boondocks" featured a frustrated …