Hello! First time posting here. I have collected art for a long time now. Originally, I collected animation artwork, because it was similar to owning a prop from the show. I've always loved art and had comic artists draw originals at cons, but I never really had the budget for the pages that I wanted until later. I got my first pages in around 2012, some pieces of work from the Marvel Movies preludes, since again, it was as close to having a 'piece' of the movie as I was going to get. Then it blossomed as I learned more about contacting the artists directly to get pages, and pretty soon I was getting pages for comics that had only just hit the presses.
I'm very intrigued by restoring comic art and that might be something I try in the near future, with overlays to replace missing graphics, repair of tears and dents, things like that.