Next and previous page link URL problem

Site URL: https://www.steveanddawn.com/

Click on next page link at the bottom of the home page and the URL changes to this: https://www.steveanddawn.com/page/2/

Because of the URL change I loose my webcomic at the top of the page. I noticed if the following url is used the webcomic does not disappear: https://www.steveanddawn.com/index.php?paged=2

I’m not sure how to fix this and I could use some help.

My permalinks are: https://www.steveanddawn.com/2006/08/19/sample-post/
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

My .htaccess is:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Another option is that after the home page there would be no trace of the webcomic as there is now.

Thanks for any help.

Steve