Leopold Bloom Air" was modelled on Leopold Bloom. Leopold Bloom also serves as an archetype, due to his non-identity and political indifference, for the nihilistic and apathetic mass in contemporary society in the French radical fringe publication "Tiqqun". Grace Slick's song "Rejoyce", from the album "After Bathing at Baxter's" concerns the novel "Ulysses", and Bloom is mentioned in the song. Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses". His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey". The
Minor characters in Bloom County date with Binkley to see "Pink Floyd: The Wall", much to Binkley's father's dismay. She appeared twice more in the strip, but eventually faded away after 1986 without further mention. A key character in the early years of the strip, Major Bloom was Milo's jingoistic, right-wing grandfather as well as his custodial guardian. He was initially named "Major P. Flynn" in a very early strip, but was thereafter known as Major Bloom, or more commonly, Major. The Major frequently had delusions about fighting Nazis and Communists (who usually turned out to be ducks), and tried to lead his grandson "the