Urhunden Prizes have been given out each year by the Svenska Seriefrämjandet (Swedish Comicbook Association) since 1987. There are three categories, Best Swedish (Domestic) Album of the Year (1987–2005), Best Foreign Album of the Year (1987–2005), and the "Unghunden" for best children's comics (1994–2005).

The award is named after the comic strip "Urhunden" by "O.A.".

Domestic album

• 1987: Alger by Gunnar Krantz
  Gunnar Krantz
  Gunnar Krantz is a Swedish comic creator and artist. He started creating modern-style black and white comics in the 1980s, making a name for himself in the Swedish fanzine community...
  
  
• 1988: Gas by Joakim Pirinen
  Joakim Pirinen
  Joakim Pirinen is a Swedish illustrator, author, and comic creator. One of the most acclaimed artists to make his debut during the 1980s wave of "artistic" and "adult" comics in Sweden, Pirinen was, and still is, a regular contributor to the Swedish alternative comics magazine Galago.Pirinen's...
  
  
• 1989: Ensamma Mamman by Cecilia Torudd
  Cecilia Torudd
  Cecilia Torudd is a Swedish cartoonist. She is the daughter of Albert Levan, studied Art Education at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and is the author of Ensamma mamman. She is also known for her long standing contributions to Kamratposten.-References:...
  
  
• 1990: Arne Anka
  Arne Anka
  Arne Anka is a Swedish comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen under the pseudonym Alexander Barks from 1983 to 1995. The title character closely resembles Donald Duck...
  
  by Charlie Christensen
• 1991: Medan Kaffet Kallnar by Ulf Lundkvist
  Ulf Lundkvist
  Ulf Lundkvist is a Swedish comic creator, illustrator, and painter. A nostalgia buff in love with the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Lundkvist depicts the "old Sweden" with humor and affection, small towns and countryside, anachronistic places where time seem to stand still.Lundkvist's most famous comic is...
  
  
• 1992: Arne Anka Del II by Charlie Christensen
• 1993: Uti vår hage
  Uti vår hage
  Uti vår hage |folk song]]) was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show starred the three well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The format of the show was one main...
  
   3 by Krister Petersson
• 1994: Arne Anka Del III by Charlie Christensen
• 1995: Vakuumneger by Max Andersson
  Max Andersson
  Max Andersson is a Swedish comic creator and film maker, mostly doing "underground style" and "artistic" comics. His comics have mainly been published in Swedish albums, and in the Swedish art magazine Galago....
  
  
• 1996: Garagedrömmar by Mats Kjellblad
• 1997: Baron Bosse Story (Assar 6) by Ulf Lundkvist
• 1998: Hjärteblod by Anders Westerberg
• 1999: Allt för Konsten (anthology)
• 2000: Rocky
  Rocky (comic strip)
  Rocky is a Swedish autobiographical comic strip created by Martin Kellerman, focusing on an anthropomorphic dog, Rocky, and his friends in their everyday life in Stockholm.-Overview:...
  
  by Martin Kellerman
  Martin Kellerman
  Martin Kellerman is a Swedish cartoonist, known for the comic strip Rocky.-Biography:Kellerman was influenced by American and Swedish underground cartoonists such as Peter Bagge, Max Andersson, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Joe Matt and Mats Jonsson. Kellerman states that his work resembles "a...
  
  
• 2001: För Fin för Denna Världen by Daniel Ahlgren
• 2002: Fröken Märkvärdig och Karriären by Joanna Rubin Dranger
• 2003: Sjunde Våningen by Åsa Grennvall
• 2004: Klas Katt Går till Sjöss by Gunnar Lundkvist
• 2005: Amatörernas Afton by Anneli Furmark
• 2006: Pojken i skogen by Mats Jonsson
  Mats Jonsson (cartoonist)
  Mats Jonsson is a Swedish comic creator. Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt.Mats Jonsson...
  
  
• 2007: Jag är din flickvän nu by Nina Hemmingsson

Foreign album

• 1987: Operation Istanbul by Vittorio Giardino
  Vittorio Giardino
  Vittorio Giardino is an Italian comic artist.Giardino was born in Bologna, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1969.At the age of 30, he decided to leave his job and devote himself to comics...
  
   (Italy)
• 1988: Maus
  Maus
  Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of...
  
  by Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
  
   (USA)
• 1989: Den Skrattande Solen (The Laughing Sun) by Gilbert Hernandez
  Gilbert Hernandez
  Gilberto Hernández, born February 1, 1957, in Oxnard, California, usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also known by the nickname Beto , is an American comics writer/artist...
  
   (USA)
• 1990: Blues i Brallan by Baru (French)
• 1991: Sirenens Sång by François Bourgeon
  François Bourgeon
  François Bourgeon is a French comics artist, author of several noted European comic books.-Biography:Bourgeon was originally educated as a master stained glass artist, but difficulties in finding employment and a passion for drawing altered his course onto a different career...
  
   (French)
• 1992: Watchmen
  Watchmen
  Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...
  
  by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
  
   (USA)
• 1993: Maus
  Maus
  Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of...
  
   II by Art Spiegelman (USA)
• 1994: Ernie 1 by Bud Grace
  Bud Grace
  Bud Grace is a cartoonist, who has worked on the comic strip Ernie, whose title was later changed to The Piranha Club in the United States. He also drew Babs and Aldo comic strip for King, under the pseudonym Buddy Valentine. Grace was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, grew up in Florida, and...
  
   (USA)
• 1995: 1945 (När Kriget Kom 5) by Niels Roland, Morten Hesseldahl and Henrik Rehr (Denmark)
• 1996: Serier: Den Osynliga Konsten (Comics: The Unseen Art
  Understanding Comics
  Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is a 215-page non-fiction comic book, written and drawn by Scott McCloud and originally published in 1993. It explores the definition of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements...
  
  ) by Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
  
   (USA)
• 1997: Den Stora Kokapplöpningen (Bone
  Bone (comics)
  Bone is an independently published graphic novel series originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004. Bone was drawn and written by Jeff Smith....
  
   4) by Jeff Smith
  Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
  Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His current series, RASL, focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.-Early life and education:Jeff Smith was born in McKees...
  
   (USA)
• 1998: Karu Cell by Kati Kovács (Finland)
• 1999: Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown
  Chester Brown
  Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....
  
   (Canada)
• 2000: Pappas Flicka (Daddy's Girl) by Debbie Drechsler (USA)
• 2001: Vänta Lite... (Hey, Wait...) by Jason (Norway)
• 2002: Holmenkollen by Matti Hagelberg (Finland)
• 2003: Ghost World
  Ghost World
  Ghost World is a comic book written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized in issues #11 through #18 of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was first published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books...
  
  by Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
  
   (USA)
• 2004: Allt för konsten 4 (Nordic anthology)
• 2005: Persepolis
  Persepolis
  Perspolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire . Persepolis is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. In contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid...
  
   Book 1 by Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
  
   (Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  /France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  )
• 2006: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and David Lloyd
  David Lloyd
  David Lloyd may refer to:*David Lloyd , chief justice of colonial Pennsylvania*David Lloyd Welsh cleric and translator*David Lloyd , British tenor...
  
   (UK/USA)
• 2007: Broderier (Broderies) by Marjane Satrapi (Iran/France)

Unghunden

• 1994: Rune Andréasson
  Rune Andréasson
  Rune Herbert Emanuel Andréasson was a Swedish comic creator.Andréasson has created children's comics since 1944, mainly for the Swedish market, but his works have been published in several European nations...
  
  
• 1995: Peter Madsen, Henning Kure, Per Vadmand and Hans Rancke-Madsen
• 1996: Måns Gahrton and Johan Unenge
• 1997: Magnus Knutsson
• 1998: Don Rosa
  Don Rosa
  Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other characters created by Carl Barks for Disney comics, such as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.-Early life:Don Rosa's grandfather,...
  
  
• 1999: Bryan Talbot
  Bryan Talbot
  Bryan Talbot is a British comic book artist and writer, born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire.-Career:...
  
  
• 2000: Bokfabriken
• 2001: Carlsen Comics
• 2002: Mats Källblad
• 2003: Kamratposten
• 2004: Bamse-redaktionen
• 2005: Johan Andreasson
• 2006: Helena Magnusson
• 2007: Ulf Granberg
• 2009: Jan Lööf
  Jan Lööf
  Jan Lööf is a Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician.Lööf studied at the Stockholm Art Academy in the early 1960s. In 1967, he started his most famous comic strip Felix, which soon gained popularity into many parts of the world...