At Marvel Schmidt was an Associate Editor and mainly worked on the "Marvel Heroes" group of titles under Tom Brevoort. In 2006 he oversaw the Annihilation storyline, a major event involving a range of Marvel's cosmic characters.

In June 2008 it was announced that Schmidt had left Marvel and is now at IDW Publishing editing Star Trek and the revival of G.I. Joe. He has also taken up comic writing, with his first series being Challenger Deep at Boom! Studios, with an announced three-issue comic book adaptation of The Wrath of Khan.

He owns and teaches at Comics Experience, a school dedicated to teaching comics writers and artists.

Editor

Comics he has edited include:

• Secret War #1-5 (Marvel, 2004—2005)
• Annihilation event (Marvel, 2005—2006):
• Drax the Destroyer (2005) #1-4
• Nova (2006) #1-4
• Ronan the Accuser (2006) #1-4
• Silver Surfer (2006) #1-4
• Super-Skrull (2006) #1-4
• Annihilation #1-6 (2006)
• Ms. Marvel (Marvel, 2006) #1
• The Next Generation: The Last Generation (IDW Publishing, 2008)
• Countdown (IDW Publishing, 2009)

Writer

Comics

Comics he has written include:

• "Cyclops and Wolverine" (with art by Marco Turini, in Marvel Comics Presents #8, Marvel, 2008)
• "The Hole" (with Frazer Irving, in Divided We Stand #2, Marvel, July 2008)
• "Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?" (with pencils by Joe Lalich and inks by John Czop, in Creature Features #1, by Th3rd World Studios, 2008)
• Challenger Deep (concept by Andrew Cosby, with art by Chee, 4-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, 2008)
• The Wrath of Khan (with art by Chee, IDW Publishing, 2009, forthcoming)

Books

He has also written about creating comics:

• The Insider's Guide To Creating Comics And Graphic Novels (176 pages, Impact, February 2009, ISBN 1600610226)