[2] After working as an apprentice at a New York fashion studio and a part-time male model,[2] he joined MLJ in 1942, shortly after the creation of Archie.
His colleague and friend Joe Edwards recalled that it was Schwartz's work that turned the character from a second banana to a star: "He made Jughead!
Agents, but his main project was Tippy Teen, an Archie-style comic about the adventures of a spunky teenaged girl.
[4] The comic and its spinoff, Tippy's Friends Go-Go and Animal, featured many stories drawn by Schwartz, as well as contributions from moonlighting Archie artists like Harry Lucey and Dan DeCarlo.
At other times, he would eliminate panel lines altogether and draw the characters in an open white space.
His scenes in the hall of Riverdale High School often feature explosions, pratfalls and other mishaps by characters who aren't directly involved in the story, and Edwards was particularly fond of a gag where Schwartz made it look like Mr. Weatherbee was making a rude gesture at a portrait on his office wall.