My one note is I would be careful about promising to send stuff by mail, especially at the $5 level (although it looks like you just said ‘maybe’ by mail, but most rewards would be digital). Depending on the number of Patreon patrons you get at that level, mailing stuff could end up being a lot of work or it could end up being expensive.

Yay! Glad you got it to work.

I didn’t even notice that was an option :-/

So the solution I have involves having to edit a php file every time your chapter changes to switch out the image/link, since it looks like you use a custom image for the cover of your chapter. This solution assumes you don’t already have a custom template for your homepage.

In your Child Theme, create a functions.php file and add the following:

<?php
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'comicpress_child_theme_setup' );
function comicpress_child_theme_setup() {
	add_image_size( 'latest-post', 240, 336, true );
}

This adds a thumbnail size that is the size you need, and automatically crops it.

Create a file called home.php and add the following to it.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Home
*/

get_header();

$my_query = new WP_Query('post_type=comic&showposts=1'); ?>

<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0;">
<a href="http://brosinspace.com/index.php/comic/symbiosis-1/">
	<img class="alignnone wp-image-393" src="http://i0.wp.com/brosinspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Symbiosis-Cover-V2-Shrunk.png?resize=240%2C336" alt="Symbiosis Cover V2 Shrunk"  width="240" height="336">
</a>

<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_post_thumbnail('latest-post') ?>
</a>
<?php endwhile; ?>

</p>
<p  style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0">
<a href="http://brosinspace.com/index.php/comic/symbiosis-1/"><img class="alignnone wp-image-400" src="http://i1.wp.com/brosinspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Currentpage.png?resize=240%2C80" alt="Currentpage"  width="240" height="80"></a>

<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();?>

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/brosinspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Recentpagebutton.png?w=240"></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>

</p>

<?php
if (comicpress_sidebars_disabled()) $content_width = comicpress_themeinfo('content_width_disabled_sidebars');

while (have_posts()) : the_post();
comicpress_display_the_content();
endwhile;

get_footer();

On the Edit Page view for ‘http://brosinspace.com/’ – under “Page Attributes” you should be able to select the “Template” dropdown and choose “Home.” This template basically adds the “Current Story” and “Latest Post” images above whatever text you have on the page with the “Latest Post” image automatically being updated to the latest featured image + link, so you can take that part out of the page content.

Let me know how this works, I wrote this based on a basic version of comicpress since I wasn’t sure if there was anything special you’ve done to your child theme. To be safe, I wouldn’t remove the current “Current Story” and “Latest Post” images and links until you’re sure this solution works.

No problem! Glad to help.

The not touching theme code solution

In Appearances->Widgets create a new text widget for the footer and insert the following in your new widget (do not give it a title)

<p class="copyright-info">
©2013-2016 <a href="http://www.pacificacomic.com">Pacifica</a> <span class="footer-pipe">|</span> Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> with <a href="http://frumph.net">ComicPress</a> on <a href="URL HERE">Dream Host</a>
<span class="footer-subscribe"><span class="footer-pipe">|</span> Subscribe: <a href="http://www.pacificacomic.com/feed/">RSS</a>
</span>
<span class="footer-uptotop"><span class="footer-pipe">|</span> <a href="" onclick="scrollup(); return false;">Back to Top ↑</a></span>
</p>

(Replace “URL HERE” with your dreamhost affiliate url)

Then go to Appearance -> Comicpress Options, click on the ‘General’ tab, and click on ‘Disable the copyright text in the footer?’ and that will remove the existing footer on the website.

Downside to this solution, is you’ll have to manually update the copyright each year, but it does make it easier to directly edit your footer otherwise.

On line 4387 on your css you have this style declaration:

.widget {
	font-size: 12px;
	font-size: 1.2rem;
	margin: 0 0 20%; /* <--- change this */
	padding: 0 20%;
}

The margin: 0 0 20% is forcing the large margin (like 80px) below each of your widgets. Changing that 20% do a different number should shrink that space between ads.

As a heads up, looks like you have a responsive theme, so the .widget styling is also in 2 other places for other screen sizes:

line 2769:

.widget {
	margin-bottom: 11.1111%; /* <--- change this */
}

and line 1134:

.widget {
	color: #707070;
	color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.7);
	-webkit-hyphens: auto;
	-moz-hyphens: auto;
	-ms-hyphens: auto;
	hyphens: auto;
	margin: 0 auto 9.09090%; /* <--- change this */
	width: 100%;
	word-wrap: break-word;
}