Comic Easel integration

I am having some difficulties with getting a piece of the Comic easel plug in to integrate into the front page. Specifically I am trying to get the comic blog area to appear. Basically I need to insert
<?php do_action('comic-blog-area'); ?>
into the appropriate section. However, when I insert it into index, frontpage, header.. the best I can get it to do is give me a white line across the top of the regular blog display. I’m guessing there is a simple solution that I’m just not getting due to my lack of understanding of php.